Poverty alleviation and growth
The Hindu
These essays on topics ranging from poverty reduction policies to caste in India to the employment guarantee scheme provide a transformative agenda on development economics
Can large cash transfers, an effective right to work, an accountable public healthcare system, and a sovereign fund that makes all citizens co-owners of the nation’s financial wealth, together create a new development paradigm for India? The present volume could be read in this manner. The collection contains a wide variety of essays on topics ranging from poverty reduction policies, role of property rights and financial inclusion, to caste in India and autocrats in Muslim-majority countries. The common theme is the economist Pranab Bardhan whose contributions, described by the editors as “co-terminus with the emergence of modern development economics,” inspire the essays.More Related News