India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity

by Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze

Book Overview

India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive role of government regulation, and on the need for economic incentives to accelerate the growth of the economy. This book argues that an assessment of India's failure to eliminate basic deprivations has to go beyond this limited focus, and to take note of the role played in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198290128
• ISBN13: 9780198290124
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"