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India
Development and Participation
Second Edition
Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen
544 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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216x138mm
978-0-19-925749-2
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Paperback
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22 August 2002
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- Fully revised and updated
- Presents new material on health and the environment, the social costs of military expansion, and the challenges of democracy
- Explores the central role of public participation in a variety of different fields
- Includes updated and expanded statistical appendix
This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place human agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms.
In comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early nineties. However, relatively high
aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such as the accelerated expansion of military expenditure. Further, the authors link these distortions of public priorities with deep-seated inequalities of social influence and political power. The book discusses the possibility of addressing these biases through more active democratic practice.Readership: Development
economists, social and political scientists, moral philosophers. Policy-makers and activists interested in India's development experience.
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Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, and Amartya Sen, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University
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Review(s) from previous edition
"a very meticulous and persuasive analytical picture . . . altogether a model of empirical economics with a heart - Ashok V. Desai, The Book Review
"Highly illuminating . . . an exceptionally impressive analysis, rich with implications" - Cass R. Sunstein, The New Republic
"a fine account of India's achievements and failures . . . it will be a starting point of subsequent discussions on social life in India" - Partha Dasgupta, Times Higher Education Supplement
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1: Introduction and Approach
2: Economic Development and Social Opportunity
3: India in Comparative Perspective
4: India and China
5: Basic Education as a Political Issue
6: Population, Health, and the Environment
7: Gender Inequality and Women's Agency
8: Security and Democracy in a Nuclear India
9: Well Beyond Liberalization
10: The Practice of Democracy
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