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Author : Yoko Kijima
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Essays on Poverty, Inequality, and Labor Market in India written by Yoko Kijima and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dipak Mazumdar
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 0415436117
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Globalization, Labor Markets and Inequality in India written by Dipak Mazumdar and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's increased exposure to world markets and relaxation of domestic controls has given a spurt to the GDP growth rate, but its impact on poverty, inequality and employment have been controversial. This book examines these aspects of the post-reform scene, discerning the changes in trends which the new developments have created.
Author : Dipak Mazumdar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000115690
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Globalization, Labour Markets and Inequality in India written by Dipak Mazumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. While the increased exposure to world markets (‘globalization’) and relaxation of domestic controls has undoubtedly given a spurt to the GDP growth rate, its impact on poverty, inequality and employment have been controversial. This book examines in detail these aspects of post-reform India and discerns the changes and trends which these new developments have created. Providing an original analysis of unit-level data available from the quinquennial National Sample Surveys, the Annual Surveys of Industries and other basic data sources, the authors analyse and compare the results with other pieces of work in the literature. As well as describing the overall situation for India, the book highlights regional differences, and looks at the major industrial sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and tertiary services. The important topic of labor market institutions - both for the formal or organized and the unorganized sectors - is considered and the possible adverse effect on employment growth of the regulatory labor framework is examined carefully. Since any reform of this framework must go hand in hand with better state intervention in the informal sector to have any chance of acceptance politically, some of the major initiatives in this area are critically explored. Overall, this book will be of great interest to development economists, labour economists and specialists in South Asian Studies.
Author : D. Jayaraj
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Poverty, Inequality, and Population written by D. Jayaraj and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the ability to measure the categories of poverty, inequality, and population; the role of measurement in social explanation; and the philosophical bases of measurement-related judgments.
Author : Kedar Nath Prasad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poverty, Inequality, and Unemployment in India written by Kedar Nath Prasad and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191037435
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poverty and Famines written by Amartya Sen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1983-01-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
Author : S. Mahendra Dev
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inclusive Growth in India written by S. Mahendra Dev and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian experience with reforms in the last two decades reveals that while there have been achievements on the economic growth front, inequalities have increased and exclusion continues. This volume emphasizes the need for economic reforms with equitable development. It focuses on key inter-related elements of inclusive growth: agriculture, poverty, food security and employment, social sector, and regional disparities; examining the performance, issues, and challenges. The author argues for pro-poor and people- centric policies. He suggests that growth and equity objectives should be pursued simultaneously.
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821387332
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Poverty and Social Exclusion in India written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite India’s record of rapid economic growth and poverty reduction over recent decades, rising inequality in the country has been a subject of concern among policy makers, academics, and activists alike. Poverty and Social Exclusion in India focuses on social exclusion, which has its roots in India’s historical divisions along lines of caste, tribe, and the excluded sex, that is, women. These inequalities are more structural in nature and have kept entire groups trapped, unable to take advantage of opportunities that economic growth offers. Culturally rooted systems perpetuate inequality, and, rather than a culture of poverty that afflicts disadvantaged groups, it is, in fact, these inequality traps that prevent these groups from breaking out. Combining rigorous quantitative research with a discussion of these underlying processes, this book finds that exclusion can be explained by inequality in opportunities, inequality in access to markets, and inequality in voice and agency. This report will be of interest to policy makers, development practitioners, social scientists, and academics working to foster equality in India.
Author : Kalyani Raghunathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Essays in Labor and Development Economics in India written by Kalyani Raghunathan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of five distinct chapters that answer questions in labor and development economics in the Indian context. These five chapters are divided into two sections - the first deals with empirical questions, and the second with theoretical models. The first essay studies the impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) on the risk-taking behavior of farmers in India. In the context of a rural economy with very low access to formal credit and insurance, this Act provides a sizable increase in incomes. We argue that the Act does not compete with private employment, and eases either credit or insurance constraints, or both. The introduction of this Act results in an increase in the riskiness of the portfolio of crops grown at the district level, suggesting that the additional income allows farmers to invest in riskier but potentially higher return technologies. The second essay uses household-level information from rural India to study the impact of changes in the opportunity cost of a mother's time on timeintensive health investments in her children. Negative rainfall shocks decrease the size of the harvest and the need for female labor, thereby increasing the amount of time these mothers have to spend on their children. I show that negative rainfall shocks in households where the mother works increase the probability of the child being vaccinated and of breastfeeding being initiated, and decrease the probability of the child dying at a young age. The second section of my dissertation consists of theoretical modeling of the Indian labor market. The first essay in this section provides an introduction to the literature on Indian labor markets. The second essay builds a model of the rural labor market, with seasonality in agricultural production and intertemporal spillovers in productivity, and studies the welfare implications of the introduction of the NREGA. The final essay is a model outlining the linkages between the rural and urban sectors in a stylized model of the Indian labor market. It incorporates the circular nature of rural-urban migration, and studies the welfare impact of the introduction of the NREGA into such an economy.
Author : R. R. Biradar
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180696251
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Rural Non-agricultural Employment in India written by R. R. Biradar and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary S. Fields
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192547364
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Employment and Development written by Gary S. Fields and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employment and Development brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary S. Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. Most of the poor in developing countries live in households in which people work, but still they are poor because the best available work pays so little. Employment and Development: How Work Can Lead From and Into Poverty questions how economic growth affects standards of living, how labor markets work in developing countries, and how different labor market policies affect well-being. Through a collection of essays, this book tackles major questions in development and labor economics. Who benefits from economic growth and who is hurt by economic decline? Why are distributional factors and labor market conditions improving in some countries but not in others? How do developing countries' labor markets work? How would labor market conditions change if different policies were to be put into effect? What are the welfare consequences of these changes? Through distributional analysis, Fields examines inequality, poverty, income mobility, and economic well-being, and through analysis of changing labor market conditions he examines employment and unemployment, employment composition, and labor earnings. By concentrating on the poor and understanding how the labor markets work for them and how their labor market earnings might be raised in response to different policy interventions, Fields addresses questions of first-order importance for human well-being.
Author : Manoj Kumar Sanyal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788125035497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Post-reform Development in Asia written by Manoj Kumar Sanyal and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This festschrift volume for Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi dwells on issues often raised in the development debate whether neo-liberal reforms in developing nations have raised inequality and poverty, food insecurity, hindered empowerment of women, aggravated agrarian distress, reallocated resources for private profitability and facilitated the rise of multi-national oligopoly according inferior status to the domestic industries in the host countries. Most of the issues have been examined on the basis of empirical data drawn from China, India and Bangladesh. Essays on China concentrate on post-reform issues of inequality across regions and rural-urban locations and its failure to achieve targets of human development while experiencing rapid economic growth. Discussions on changes in policy environment since the early days of the People s Republic of China also constitute the basic themes of the essays. Food insecurity, growth-poverty-employment relationship, gender discrimination in the labour market and agrarian distress caused by withdrawal of state support to small farmers growing commercial crops and revision of priority sector lending policy at the cost of small farmers and entrepreneurs are the major themes of essays written in the Indian context of post-reform development. In an essay on Bangladesh the poverty issues has been revisited in the context of child work. Agrarian issues have also been raised in an essay where the author proposes an alternative peasant social construction for the dual affirmation of land rights of the state and of the peasant family. In the last two essays authors look far beyond the mainstream tradition to develop an analytical framework for understanding issues relating to the recent rise of multi-national firms and the phenomenal growth of India s software technology.
Author : Shiv Rattan Mehta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poverty, Population, and Sustainable Development written by Shiv Rattan Mehta and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only concordance to Eddic poetry ever published, Kellogg's work is a basic reference tool of all scholars of Old Norse literature and language. ". . . will become part of the indispensable core of reference works that an Old Norse eddic scholar needs." -Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Author : Ms.Era Dabla-Norris
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513547437
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality written by Ms.Era Dabla-Norris and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers being the skill premium associated with technical change and globalization, weakening protection for labor, and lack of financial inclusion in developing countries. We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth—that is, when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down. This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class. To tackle inequality, financial inclusion is imperative in emerging and developing countries while in advanced economies, policies should focus on raising human capital and skills and making tax systems more progressive.
Author : Alain de Janvry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387297480
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Poverty, Inequality and Development written by Alain de Janvry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays honors a remarkable man and his work. Erik Thorbecke has made significant contributions to the microeconomic and the macroeconomic analysis of poverty, inequality and development, ranging from theory to empirics and policy. The essays in this volume display the same range. As a collection they make the fundamental point that deep understanding of these phenomena requires both the micro and the macro perspectives together, utilizing the strengths of each but also the special insights that come when the two are linked together. After an overview section which contains the introductory chapter and a chapter examining the historical roots of Erik Thorbecke's motivations, the essays in this volume are grouped into four parts, each part identifying a major strand of Erik's work—Measurement of Poverty and Inequality, Micro Behavior and Market Failure, SAMs and CGEs, and Institutions and Development. The range of topics covered in the essays, written by leading authorities in their own areas, highlight the extraordinary depth and breadth of Erik Thorbecke's influence in research and policy on poverty, inequality and development. Acknowledgements These papers were presented at a conference in honor of Erik Thorbecke held at Cornell University on October 10-11, 2003. The conference was supported by the funds of the H. E. Babcock Chair in Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, and the T. H. Lee Chair in World Affairs at Cornell University.
Author : Kafeel Sarwar
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Essays on Poverty, Inequality and Education in India and Pakistan written by Kafeel Sarwar and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jagdish Bhagwati
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199915180
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book India's Reforms written by Jagdish Bhagwati and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this first volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies show that trade openness has helped reduce poverty among most social groups including the Scheduled Castes. Openness has affected neither poverty nor inequality adversely. When surveyed, people in disproportionately large volumes from all groups say that their fortunes are improving. This is also reflected in election outcomes with the governments delivering good economic outcomes winning and the others losing.
