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The Rise of India

Author : Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470822015
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of India written by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Risk of India: Its Transformation from Poverty to Prosperity is an extremely interesting read. The book speaks not only to the mind and intellect but also to the heart as it clearly demonstrates that economic development is above all a question of people. It also shows that the Indian society, and particularly its youth, is much more open to changes than its political and bureaucratic class, and would welcome a third wave of reforms that would help the poor to benefit from economic progress. I strongly recommend this book. It offers a very unique and rich description of today's India from the author's perspective and many well chosen anecdotes. - Colette Mathur, Director World Economic Forum This fascinating work weaves together a set of seemingly diverse events into an intricate tapestry capturing the essence and purpose of emerging India. It is also an inspiration to people in "Challenged" economies that the power of honest entrepreneurship can bring about a greater transformation than the best intentions of any government. Well-researched and well-written, this book is a good guide for developing countries to leverage the potential of people and its inherent strengths. It also brings out the challenge for India that more reforms are necessary, not less. - Nandan M Nilekani, CEO & Managing Director Infosys Technologies Limited The Rise of India is an insightful and engaging story of India before and after the 1991 reforms. There are many academic tomes on India's reforms but none is as comprehensive, lucid, and earthy. Practicing "soft hearts, hard heads" Philosophy with anecdotes and personal experiences, the author builds a compelling case for further liberalization and reforms. This book is a must read for all policy makers, students of economics, and activists of all stripes. read, understand, and become part of the revolution-a continued rise of India! - Parth J. Shah, President, Centre for Civil Society

The Rise of India, Its Transformation from Poverty

Author : Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788126513178
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of India, Its Transformation from Poverty written by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though India has been left behind such Asian economic rivals as China and Japan, the country appears to have entered a phase of long-term economic expansion that will help it catch up. The Rise of India proposes a coming boom by examining new and very significant changes in Indian policy, demography, telecommunications, globalization, consumer behavior, and financial markets. These issues will drive the economic expansion of India as it begins to compete with other nations, creating big changes - and a billion new consumers - in the global economy.· Fear Over The Valley · A Century Of Lost Opportunities · People Power · India Calling · The Global Agenda · The Financial Revolution · The Yogi And The Consumer · Reforms For The Poor The Acid Test · The Dark Side Of The Moon

Reforms and Economic Transformation in India

Author : Jagdish Bhagwati
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199915202
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Reforms and Economic Transformation in India written by Jagdish Bhagwati and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies. In this book, nine original essays pursue three interrelated themes: Why the movement of workers out of agriculture, into industry and services, and from informal to formal employments has been slow, explaining the impact the reforms have had on profitability and competition among enterprises,and analyzing the impact on the socially disadvantaged in terms of wage and education outcomes and entrepreneurship.

India

Author : Arvind Panagariya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195315030
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book India written by Arvind Panagariya and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of India's rapid growth in the past two decades has become a prominent focus in the public eye. A book that documents this unique and unprecedented surge, and addresses the issues raised by it, is sorely needed. Arvind Panagariya fills that gap with this sweeping, ambitious survey. India: The Emerging Giant comprehensively describes and analyzes India's economic development since its independence, as well as its prospects for the future. The author argues that India's growth experience since its independence is unique among developing countries and can be divided into four periods, each of which is marked by distinctive characteristics: the post-independence period, marked by liberal policies with regard to foreign trade and investment, the socialist period during which Indira Ghandi and her son blocked liberalization and industrial development, a period of stealthy liberalization, and the most recent, openly liberal period. Against this historical background, Panagariya addresses today's poverty and inequality, macroeconomic policies, microeconomic policies, and issues that bear upon India's previous growth experience and future growth prospects. These provide important insights and suggestions for reform that should change much of the current thinking on the current state of the Indian economy. India: The Emerging Giant will attract a wide variety of readers, including academic economists, policy makers, and research staff in national governments and international institutions. It should also serve as a core text in undergraduate and graduate courses that deal with Indias economic development and policies.

Poverty in India

Author : Kulwant Rai Gupta
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126909001
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Poverty in India written by Kulwant Rai Gupta and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Previous Century Was Marked By India S Great Transformation From A Colonial Agrarian Economy To A Modern, Vibrating, Knowledge-Based Economy Within The Framework Of A Liberal And Secular Democracy. A High Annual Gdp Growth Rate Of Over 8 Per Cent Is Now Being Achieved On A Consistent Basis. The Rapid Economic Growth Has, However, Brought Only A Marginal Decline In Rural And Urban Poverty As Nearly 250 Million People, Constituting About 25 Per Cent Of The Country S Total Population, Still Remain Below The Poverty Line.The Data Relating To The Dimensions Of Poverty Is Startling A Whopping 350 Million People Are Illiterate, 150 Million Have No Access To Safe Drinking Water, 750 Million Lack Clean Sanitation Facilities And Are Prone To Diseases Resulting Therefrom, And 50 Per Cent Of The Children Eat Below Acceptable Nutritional Levels. Average Life Expectancy At Birth Has No Doubt Risen To 63 Years, But Infant Mortality Rate (Imr) And Maternal Mortality Rate (Mmr) Are Still At Unacceptably High Levels 57 Per 1000, And 3 Per 1000 Live Births Respectively. In Terms Of Human Development Index (Hdi), India Is Ranked 126Th Among The 177 Listed Countries. Even The Mentioned Statistics Do Not Fully Capture The Sheer Destitution And Misery Our Marginalized Sections Of Population Are Subjected To. The Poverty That They Endure Robs Them Of Their Human Dignity And Makes A Mockery Of Our Claims To Social Justice And Equity.Growth, When Unevenly Spread, Dwarfs Overall Prosperity. Hence, Bridging The Income Divide Is The Biggest Challenge For India. The Government On Its Part Has Launched Several Poverty Alleviation Programmes But They Have Not Brought The Desired Result. The Approach Paper To The Eleventh Five-Year Plan Has Laid Emphasis On Strategies That Accelerate Growth And Make It Broadbased.The Present Anthology Is Comprised Of Well-Researched Articles By Erudite Scholars Who Have Deeply Analysed The Problem Of Persisting Poverty In India. Various Factors Responsible For Such A Situation Have Been Studied And Ways And Means Suggested To Considerably Reduce If Not Eradicate Poverty.The Book Will Serve As A Valuable Reference Source For Students And Teachers Of Economics And Researchers On This Subject. It Will Also Be Useful For The Policymakers, Planners, Parliamentarians, Government Agencies And Ngos. Common Readers Concerned With The Overall Development Of The Nation Will Find It Highly Informative.

Transforming India

Author : Sumantra Bose
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728203
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Transforming India written by Sumantra Bose and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nation of 1.25 billion people composed of numerous ethnic, linguistic, religious, and caste communities, India is the world’s most diverse democracy. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and experience of Indian politics, Sumantra Bose tells the story of democracy’s evolution in India since the 1950s—and describes the many challenges it faces in the early twenty-first century. Over the past two decades, India has changed from a country dominated by a single nationwide party into a robust multiparty and federal union, as regional parties and leaders have risen and flourished in many of India’s twenty-eight states. The regionalization of the nation’s political landscape has decentralized power, given communities a distinct voice, and deepened India’s democracy, Bose finds, but the new era has also brought fresh dilemmas. The dynamism of India’s democracy derives from the active participation of the people—the demos. But as Bose makes clear, its transformation into a polity of, by, and for the people depends on tackling great problems of poverty, inequality, and oppression. This tension helps explain why Maoist revolutionaries wage war on the republic, and why people in the Kashmir Valley feel they are not full citizens. As India dramatically emerges on the global stage, Transforming India: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy provides invaluable analysis of its complexity and distinctiveness.

The Rise Of India

Author : Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
Publisher : Elex Media Komputindo
ISBN 13 : 9792723005
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Rise Of India written by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha and published by Elex Media Komputindo. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rise of India: Its Transformastion from Poverty to Prosperity adalah buku yang sangat menarik untuk dibaca. Buku ini tidak hanya untuk konsumsi otak dan intelektual, tetapi juga hati nurani karena memperlihatkan dengan jelas bahwa perkembangan ekonomi merupakan hal terpenting bagi manusia. Buku ini juga menunjukkan bahwa masyarakat India dan terutama kaum mudanya bersikap jauh lebih terbuka terhadap perubahan daripada kelas politikus dan birokratnya, dan akan menerima dengan baik gelombang ketiga reformasi yang akan membantu kamu miskin mendapatkan manfaat dari kemajuan ekonomi. Saya merekomendasikan buku ini. Buku ini memberikan deskripsi India saat ini yang sangat unik dan kaya dari perspektif penulisnya dengan anekdot terpilih.Colette MathurDirekturWorld Economic Forum Karya menakjubkan ini meniupkan rangkaian peristiwa yang tampaknya berbeda dalam suatu paparan kompleks yang mencakup esensi dan tujuan munculnya India. Buku ini memberikan inspirasi bagi orang-orang yang berada dalam ekonomi `sulit` karena kekuatan kewirausahaan yang tulus dapat memberikan perubahan besar dibandingkan niat terbaik pemerintah mana pun. Diteliti dan ditulis dengan saksama, buku ini menjadi panduan yang berguna bagi negara berkembang untuk mengembangkan potensi masyarakat dan kekuatannya yang tidak dapat dipisahkan. Buku ini juga membeberkan tantangan bagi India akan perlunya lebih banyak-bukannya lebih sedikit-reformasi.Nandan M.NilekaniCEO & Managing DirectorInfosys Technologies Limited The Rise of India adalah kisah yang penuh wawasan dan memikat tentang India sebelum dan sesudah reformasi tahun 1991. Banyak buku yang bercerita tentang reformasi India, tetapi tidak satu pun yang komprehensif, logis, dan membumi. Dengan menerapkan filosofi `Hati yang lembut, kepala yang tangguh` serta anekdot-anekdot dan pengalaman pribadi, penulis mengetengahkan banyak kasus yang mendorong timbulnya liberalisasi dan reformasi lebih lanjut. Buku ini harus dibaca semua pembuat kebijakan, mahasiswa ekonomi, dan para aktivis dari berbagai bidang. Bac, pahami, dan jadilah bagian dari revolusi-kebangkitan India yang berkelanjutan!Parth J. ShahPresidenCentre for Civil Society"

Perspectives on Poverty in India

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821386891
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Poverty in India written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines Indias experience with poverty reduction in a period of rapid economic growth. Marshalling evidence from multiple sources of survey data and drawing on new methods, the book asks how Indias structural transformation - from rural to urban, and from agriculture to nonfarm sectors - is impacting poverty.Our analysis suggests that since the early 1990s, urban growth has emerged as a much more important driver of poverty reduction than in the past. We focus in particular on the role of small and medium size conurbations in India, both as the urban sub-sector in which urban poverty is overwhelmingly concentrated, and as a sub-sector that could potentially stimulate rural-based poverty reduction. Second, in rural areas, we focus on the nature of intersectoral transformation out of agriculture into the nonfarm economy. Stagnation in agriculture has been accompanied by dynamism in the nonfarm sector, but there is much debate about whether the growth seen has been a symptom of agrarian distress or a source of poverty reduction.Finally, alongside the accelerating economic growth and the highly visible transformation that is occurring in Indias major cities, inequality is on the rise. This is raising concern that economic growth in India has by-passed significant segments of the population. The third theme on social exclusion asks if, despite the dramatic growth, historically grounded inequalities along lines of caste, tribe and gender have persisted.This book would be of interest for policymakers, researchers, non-governmental organizations, and international agenciesfrom India and abroad--who wish to know more about Indias experience of the last two decades in reducing poverty.

India Unbound

Author : Gurcharan Das
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385720742
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book India Unbound written by Gurcharan Das and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.

Poverty amid Plenty in the New India

Author : Atul Kohli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107376092
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Poverty amid Plenty in the New India written by Atul Kohli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this 'new' India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India's children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned scholar of Indian politics and economics, blames this discrepancy on the narrow nature of the ruling alliance in India that, in its new-found relationship with business, has prioritized economic growth above all other social and political considerations. This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of India's rise in the world that its democratic rulers will be forced to come to grips with in the years ahead.

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India

Author : Prabhu Pingali
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030144081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India written by Prabhu Pingali and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity along with micro-nutrient deficiency portend to a future public health crisis. This book explores various challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified production systems, improved health and hygiene environment and greater individual capability to access a balanced diet contributing to an increase in overall productivity. The authors bring together the latest data and scientific evidence from the country to map out the current state of food systems and nutrition outcomes. They place India within the context of other developing country experiences and highlight India’s status as an outlier in terms of the persistence of high levels of stunting while following global trends in obesity. This book discusses the policy and institutional interventions needed for promoting a nutrition-sensitive food system and the multi-sectoral strategies needed for simultaneously addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in India.

India Becoming

Author : Akash Kapur
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594486530
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book India Becoming written by Akash Kapur and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012 A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A Newsweek "Must Read on Modern India" “For people who savored Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers.”—Evan Osnos, newyorker.com From the author of Better To Have Gone, a portrait of the incredible change and economic development of modern India, and of social and national transformation there told through individual lives Raised in India, and educated in the U.S., Akash Kapur returned to India in 2003 to raise a family. What he found was an ancient country in transition. In search of the life that he and his wife want to lead, he meets an array of Indians who teach him much about the realities of this changed country: an old landowner sees his rural village destroyed by real estate developments, and crime and corruption breaking down the feudal authority; a 21-year-old single woman and a 35-year-old divorcee exploring the new cultural allowances for women; and a young gay man coming to terms with his sexual identity – something never allowed him a generation ago. As Akash and his wife struggle to find the right balance between growth and modernity and the simplicity and purity they had known from the Indian countryside a decade ago, they ultimately find a country that “has begun to dream.” But also one that may be moving away too quickly from the valuable ways in which it is different.

From Poverty to Power

Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 0855985933
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book From Poverty to Power written by Duncan Green and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.

India Connected

Author : Ravi Agrawal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190858656
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book India Connected written by Ravi Agrawal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former chief CNN India correspondent and award-wining journalist Ravi Agrawal takes readers on a journey across the Subcontinent, through its remote rural villages and its massive metropolises, seeking out the nexuses of change created by smartphones, and with them connection to the internet. As always with India, the numbers are staggering: in 2000, 20 million Indians had access to the internet; by 2017, 465 million were online, with three Indians discovering the internet every second. By 2020, India's online community is projected to exceed 700 million, and more than a billion Indians are expected to be online by 2025. In the course of a single generation, access to the internet has progressed from dial-up connections on PCs, to broadband access, wireless, and now 4G data on phones. The rise of low-cost smartphones and cheap data plans has meant the country leapfrogged the baby steps their Western counterparts took toward digital fluency. The results can be felt in every sphere of life, upending traditions and customs and challenging conventions. Nothing is untouched, from arranged marriages to social status to business start-ups, as smartphones move the entire economy from cash-based to credit-based. Access to the internet is affecting the progress of progress itself. As Agrawal shows, while they offer immediate and sometimes mind-altering access to so much for so many, smartphones create no immediate utopia in a culture still driven by poverty, a caste system, gender inequality, illiteracy, and income disparity. Internet access has provided greater opportunities to women and changed the way in which India's many illiterate poor can interact with the world, but it has also meant that pornography has become more readily available. Under a government keen to control content, it has created tensions. And in a climate of hypernationalism, it has fomented violence and even terrorism. The influence of smartphones on "the world's largest democracy" is nonetheless pervasive and irreversible, and India Connected reveals both its dimensions and its implications.

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

Author : Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706403
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book How China Escaped the Poverty Trap written by Yuen Yuen Ang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE "BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences." ― Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee Acclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," How China Escaped the Poverty Trap advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise. How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth." Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate. Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials. Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms. Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.

Poverty of India

Author : Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230739472
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Poverty of India written by Dadabhai Naoroji and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...the United Kingdom from the year 1806 to 1848. The prices of Indian cotton in Liverpool in 1806 is iid., in 1807 d. In 1808 it went up to iod., and then declined, till in 1811 it touched id. It rose again, till in 1814 it went up to 2d. It had subsequently various fluctuations, till in 1832 it just touched 4 d., but again continued to be above till 1840 with an average above 6d. It subsequently continued at a low average of about 4., and would have remained so to this day, or perhaps gone out of the English market altogether, as was very nearly the case in 1860, but for the American War which sent it up. Now, looking at the figures given above, it will be seen that, now that the temporary impulse of the American War is over, cotton is fast sinking again, and we can no longer expect to see again that high curve of the first quarter of the present century ranging from 7d. to 2d. The Suez Canal opening direct communication with European Ports, has only saved the Indian cotton trade from perishing altogether. The Administration Report of 1871-72 gives a distressing picture of the season over nearly the whole of the presidency, and of the inability of the people to stand it; and are the prices of such years to be glad about, and to be taken in averages of rise? The Central Provinces.--In the Central Provinces the average price of rice, as I have pointed out before, for the year 1867-68--a year of average good season--is Rs. 1-8 per maund of 80 lbs., not a high price certainly; and if these be an "enormous" rise in former prices, what wretched prices must they have been before? I have not materials for comparison with prices before the British rule. Of the North-West Provinces I have not come across sufficient materials to make a...

The Prosperity Paradox

Author : Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062851837
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Prosperity Paradox written by Clayton M. Christensen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity, and offers a groundbreaking solution for true and lasting change. Global poverty is one of the world’s most vexing problems. For decades, we’ve assumed smart, well-intentioned people will eventually be able to change the economic trajectory of poor countries. From education to healthcare, infrastructure to eradicating corruption, too many solutions rely on trial and error. Essentially, the plan is often to identify areas that need help, flood them with resources, and hope to see change over time. But hope is not an effective strategy. Clayton M. Christensen and his co-authors reveal a paradox at the heart of our approach to solving poverty. While noble, our current solutions are not producing consistent results, and in some cases, have exacerbated the problem. At least twenty countries that have received billions of dollars’ worth of aid are poorer now. Applying the rigorous and theory-driven analysis he is known for, Christensen suggests a better way. The right kind of innovation not only builds companies—but also builds countries. The Prosperity Paradox identifies the limits of common economic development models, which tend to be top-down efforts, and offers a new framework for economic growth based on entrepreneurship and market-creating innovation. Christensen, Ojomo, and Dillon use successful examples from America’s own economic development, including Ford, Eastman Kodak, and Singer Sewing Machines, and shows how similar models have worked in other regions such as Japan, South Korea, Nigeria, Rwanda, India, Argentina, and Mexico. The ideas in this book will help companies desperate for real, long-term growth see actual, sustainable progress where they’ve failed before. But The Prosperity Paradox is more than a business book; it is a call to action for anyone who wants a fresh take for making the world a better and more prosperous place.