Reclaiming development studies : essays for Ashwani Saith / edited by Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta, Servaas Storm.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arsel, Murat, editor.

DasGupta, Anirban, editor.

Storm, Servaas, editor.

Series:

Anthem frontiers of global political economy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saith, Ashwani.

Economic development.

Development economics.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book aims to reclaim the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies - something that is increasingly challenged from different directions. Confronted by the status quoist enterprise of randomized control trials (RCTs) on the one hand and the radical endeavour to decolonize dominant knowledge systems (decoloniality) on the other, the study of development as an enduring societal ambition needs urgent revival.<br><br>The essays featured in this book build on the contributions of Ashwani Saith - an ardent critic of development orthodoxy and who at the same time is not ready to give up on the emancipatory potential of the development project. Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays touch upon many of the key questions of development studies centred around structural change, labour and poverty and inequality. They also highlight the continued necessity to ground the study of development processes in a critical political economy approach while interrogating the quick-fixes touted by the mainstream discourse on development.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tbale

Acknowledgments

Chapter One INTRODUCTION: THE WHY AND HOW OF RECLAIMING DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Development Studies on an Unsteady Terrain

Development as an Enduring Societal Ambition: The Work of Ashwani Saith

References

Part I GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE

Chapter Two THE RURAL NON-FARM ECONOMY IN INDIA REVISITED: FROM RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION TO RURAL ENTREPRENEURS

Introduction

Revising Saith's Thesis

Sectoral Shifts in the Indian Economy

Employment for Rural Households

A Different Historical Moment

Conclusion

Chapter Three ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA AND INDIA: A TALE OF GREAT DIVERGENCE

Economic Growth: 1955-2010

Structural Change, Growth and Employment: An Analytical Perspective

Structural change in China and India

Structural change, labour reallocation and growth

Structural change, labour reallocation and employment

The Great Divergence: Why?

The initial conditions

The reforms

Concluding Observations

Appendix Tables

Chapter Four GLOBALIZATION: AN ENHANCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY OR THE DEPRIVATION OF AUTONOMY TO PURSUE RAPID AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH?

Perceived Constraints

Globalization per se Did Not 'Kick the Ladder'

The Dismantlement of the ISI Required Compensatory Action

Policies for Inequality Aversion

A Digression on History

Changes in Development Paradigm that Coincided with Globalization

Globalization under Threat from Advanced Countries

Conclusions

Appendix

Part II LABOUR

Chapter Five LABOUR LAWS AND MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE IN INDIA: HOW PRIORS TRUMP EVIDENCE AND PROGRESS GETS STALLED

Laws Created to Help Workers Often Hurt Them.

Labour Laws and Manufacturing Performance: Besley And Burgess (2004)

Extant critiques of Besley and Burgess (2004)

Conceptual problems with the BB index

Econometric problems

The curse of Econ10117

Capital-labour substitution

Increase in the marginal cost of production.

The expropriation effect

The findings of Besley and Burgess are also not economically meaningful

Power and the useful economist22

Chapter Six MAKING PEOPLE 'SURPLUS POPULATION' IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Marx, Living Labour and the Creation of Surplus Population

Labour Power and Living Labour

Living Labour and Wage Labour in Southern Africa

Land and primitive accumulation

The reproduction living labour

Competition, class struggle and variable outcomes for the social division of labour

The tensions of petty commodity production within capitalist society

The struggles of living labour

Conclusion: Proletarianization and the Wage Labour/Living Labour Divide

Chapter Seven EFFECTIVE DEMAND, SURPLUS LABOUR AND THE PACE OF DEVELOPMENT: REREADING KALECKI AND KAHN

Macro Framework: The Interaction between Consumption and Investment

Inflation in Prices of Necessities as a Constraint to Economic Growth

Surplus Labour, Investment and Consumption

Chapter Eight FROM ASSUMED RELUCTANCY TO ENFORCED REDUNDANCY: THE CHANGED DEPRECIATION OF LABOUR IN THE TRANSITION TOWARDS GLOBAL CAPITALISM

Stagnation and De-industrialization in the Low Countries

Tackling Poverty with Dutch Benevolence

Persistent Unwillingness to Accumulate or to Economize

Poverty and Destitution in the World Today

Part III Poverty and Inequality

Chapter Nine POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS IN BANGLADESH: REVISITING SOME DEVELOPMENT IDEAS.

Poverty Reduction with Increasing Inequality

Achievements in Social Development Indicators

Limits to the 'Development Surprise'

Governance and Development

Concluding Remarks

Chapter Ten SUKHATME'S LEGACY AND THE INDIAN EXCEPTIONALISM1

Measuring Poverty

The Indian Exceptionalism: 'Small but Healthy'

The Indian Body Machine: Decrease in Food, Increase in Efficiency

Challenging the 'Small but Healthy' Hypothesis from a Nutritional Perspective

Bailing Out the Indian State

Chapter Eleven ENGLISH AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN INDIAN EDUCATION: INEQUALITY OF ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

The Data

The Advantages of Studying with English as the Medium of Instruction

Inequality in Access to English

A Multinomial Logit Model of Language Choice

Institutional Structure and English as a Medium of Instruction

Chapter Twelve INDIA'S SOCIAL INEQUALITY AS DURABLE INEQUALITY: DALITS AND ADIVASIS AT THE BOTTOM OF AN INCREASINGLY UNEQUAL HIERARCHICAL SOCIETY

Social Inequality: Definitional and Measurement Issues

Why focus on social inequality?

How are the social groups identified?

Dimensions of inequality

How are they measured?

The Framework of Durable Inequality

Social Groups in the Indian Context

The classification is both social and economic

SCs and STs or Dalits and Adivasis: How many are they and where are they concentrated?

Sources of Data for Mapping Social Inequality

Types of Inequality

Resource Inequality

Asset inequality

Inequality in the incidence of poverty

Capability Inequality

Inequality in educational attainment

Inequality in health status

Existential Inequality.

Employment and Livelihood Implications of Being at the Bottom of the Social Ladder

Summing Up the Findings

Durable Inequality and Its Core Mechanisms

Future Prospects

Chapter Thirteen THE MYTH OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS AND (DE)GROWTH IN THE TIME OF SDGs

Earthrise

Limits to Whose Growth?

Sustainable Development and Its Goals

The Earth Is One, the World Is Not

End Matter

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Feb 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78527-997-1

1-78527-998-X

OCLC:

1257075767