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South Asia: Business & Economics Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series New
Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India Cronyism and fragility Debdas Banerjee, University of Calcutta, India Against the background of the duality in development, this book focuses on structural deficiencies for a steady growth rate, and how to make growth inclusive. A novel approach to the analysis of the Indian economy and other developing countries in the twenty-first century, this book advocates development as a form of governance. Selected Contents: 1. Emerging India: Issues in Development 2. Global Trade and Investments: Opportunities and Challenges for India 3. Industrial Capabilities: Research and Development as the Indicator 4. Economic Restructuring: Employment and Income Implications 5. Agriculture: The Genesis of Growing Vulnerability 6. Trends in Wage and Earnings Differentials 7. Development as Governance: More Evidence from the Social Sector 8. Epilogue 2009: 234 x 156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-55974-4: $145.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415559744
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Microcredit and Women’s Empowerment A Case Study of Bangladesh Aminul Faraizi and Jim McAllister, both at CQUniversity, Australia and Taskinur Rahman, Assistance for Social Organization and Development (ASOD), Bangladesh This book investigates the claims of the success of microcredit, as well as critiques of it in the context of women’s empowerment. Using the case study of Bangladesh and based on a long term participatory observation method, the book establishes that the success stories of the microcredit programme are blown out of proportion. Selected Contents: 1. The Empowerment Project 2. Microcredit as Empowerment Strategy 3. Unpacking Microcredit Discourses 4. Implanting Microcredit: BRAC and the Grameen Bank 5. Envisioning Microcredit 6. The False Promise: Microcredit and Poor Womens’ Empowerment October 2010: 234 x 156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-58490-6: $130.00
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Education and Inequality in India
The Labour Movement in the Global South
Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India and Jos Mooij, Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands
Trade Unions in Sri Lanka
This book focuses on primary education in India and interrogates what schooling means and does to children from weaker sections of Indian society and which values underpin the school system. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it a larger social goal and a deeper political statement about the need for attacking entrenched social inequalities, and above all an affirmation of the idea that schooling has a liberating potential.
This book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. Based on extensive original research, it centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka.
Drawing on original data collected in the two states of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, the authors first present the multiple ways in which social class impinges on the educational system, educational processes and educational outcomes. In the second part of the book, issues around autonomy and accountability are explored via an analysis of the position of teachers within the educational hierarchy, and by looking at the various possibilities of making teachers accountable. The last part centres on the learning process, with a particular focus on the classroom. The conclusion includes recommendations that are related to the necessity for a larger debate and normative framework, which includes private schools as possible partners in the pursuing of a public good for which a public entity should take some responsibility, and in conjuncture to that, the necessity to move from government action and responsibilities to a broader concept of public action. Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: Social Class in Education 2. Teachers 3. Parents 4. Schools and the Educational System Part 2: Autonomy and Accountability 5. Centralization and Decentralization 6. Participation and Accountability Part 3: Quality and Educational Regimes 7. The Learning Process 8. Textbooks and Curriculum 9. Conclusion October 2010: 234 x 156: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-49534-9: $135.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415495349
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The Economics of Urban Migration in India Vegard Iversen, University of Manchester, UK Presenting new research on rural-urban migration in developing countries, this book combines novel economic theories with empirics, and focuses on the social dimensions of such movement.
Sumithra Janaka Biyanwila, University of Western Australia
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. History of Unions in Sri Lanka: The Colonial State and Political Unionism 3. Trade Unions, Neo-liberalism and Ethno-nationalism: ‘Motherland First, Workplace Second’ 4. Nurses’ and a Monk: Limits of Economic Unionism 5. Plantation Workers and Anti-Tamil Violence: Struggles of Political Unionism 6. Free Trade Zone Workers and Alliances: Building a Movement Unionism 7. Conclusion: Renewing Movement Politics and Global Labour Solidarity June 2010: 234 x 156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-58080-9: $125.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415580809
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Credit Cooperatives in India Past, Present and Future Biswa Swarup Misra, Xavier Institute of Management, India Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics Cooperatives in India make up one of the largest rural financial systems in the world. This book deals with the traditional banking system in the developing economy of India and its evolution over time. It shows that cooperatives occupy an important place in India’ s financial edifice as they play a key role in the multiagency framework for rural credit delivery. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Evolution of Credit Cooperatives in India 3. Revitalising Primary Credit Cooperative in India 4. District Central Cooperative Banks: Reorienting the Middle Tier in the Cooperative Edifice of India 5. The Role of State Cooperative Banks in the Indian Cooperative Structure 6. Interdependence in the Cooperative Credit Structure in India 7. Impact Analysis of Credit Extended by Cooperatives 8. Redesigning the Cooperative Edifice in India April 2010: 216 x 138: 176pp Hb: 978-0-415-56699-5: $130.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415566995
Selected Contents: 1. Background, Motivation and Literature Review 2. Social Boundaries in Migration Events: The Role of Kin, Caste and Religion 3. Segmentation and Social Network Multipliers in Rural Urban Migration 4. Networks in the Traditional Economy: Empirics 5. Concluding Remarks October 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-41539-2: $130.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415415392
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