E-grāmata: Development, Transformations and the Human Condition: Essays in Honour of Jayati Ghosh [Taylor & Francis e-book]

List of Figures x List of Tables xii List of Contributors xiv
Acknowledgements xix 1 Introduction 1 PART I Capitalism, Inequality and
Development 23 2 A Time of Darkness? The Pursuit of Collective Well-being in
an Unequal World 25 Gerry Rodgers 3 The Underdevelopment Trap of Indian
Capitalism 39 Surajit Mazumdar 4 Social Capital: The Indian Connection 54 Ben
Fine 5 Studying the World in Order to Change the World: Looking Back Across
Half a Century 68 Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker 6 Gandhi, Technology and
Employment 77 Prabhat Patnaik PART II Aspects of Human Development and Human
Rights 97 7 Food Systems, Markets and Public Policy for Food 99 Barbara
Harriss-White 8 Calorie and Nutrient Intake in India from 199394 to 201112
and Its Implications 117 Sourindra Mohan Ghosh 9 School Meals and Child
Undernutrition in India 134 Anjana Thampi 10 Does Indias Post-Colonial Land
Acquisition Act Safeguard Farmer Interests? 148 Smita Gupta 11 Three Public
Protests and the Dynamics of Democracy in India 165 Zoya Hasan PART III
Gender and Development 181 12 How the IMF Discovered Gender Equality but
Continued to Undermine Womens Rights 183 Diane Elson 13 Gender Bias in Data
Collection: The Indian Context 200 Sona Mitra 14 Women in Pubic Employment in
India: Working for the State in the Neoliberal Era 214 Dipa Sinha 15 Gender
Dimensions of Paid and Unpaid Labour of Asian and Mexican Immigrants in the
USA, 20032018 230 Ruchira Sen 16 Womens Unpaid Carework in Rural Malaysia
245 Rokiah Alavi and Jomo K. S. 17 Does a Higher Female Share in Managerial
Positions Lead to Less Gender-Based Discrimination for Other Female Employees
in a Sector? 259 Bidisha Mondal PART IV Political Economy of Trade and
Financial Systems 269 18 Political Economy of International Taxation of
Digital Businesses 271 Suranjali Tandon 19 The Costs of Financial Inclusion
288 Madhura Swaminathan 20 Digital Transformations: An Exploration of Their
Cross-Sectoral Impacts on the Manufacturing Sector 302 Smitha Francis 21
China-Africa Partnership: Implications for African Development 327 Malancha
Chakrabarty 22 Indias Trade in Pharmaceutical Products: Recent Trends 339
Reji K. Joseph and Dinesh Kumar PART V Music 363 23 Offkey: Musings on
Singing a Tune 365 T. M. Krishna 24 The Language of Grief 377 Vidya Rao 25
Music in Politics, Music as Politics: Understanding Radical Interventions
through Peoples Music in India 394 Sumangala Damodaran Index 410

Sumangala Damodaran is an economist and a musician, whose scholarly work spans industrial organisation and labour studies and popular music studies. She is presently Director of Gender and Economics at the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) and has more than 30 years of teaching experience at Delhi University and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the Institute for Human Development, Delhi.

Smita Gupta works on employment, land rights, tribal rights, natural resources policy, etc. She did policy research for the Planning Commission at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. She is currently engaged with household surveys on living and working conditions of the poor in India at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. She regularly makes submissions to Parliamentary Committees on macroeconomic, gender and natural resource policies.

Sona Mitra is an economist and is currently the Director of Policy and Research at the Institute for What Works to Advance Gender Equality (IWWAGE) an initiative of LEAD at Krea University, India. She has worked on issues of women, labour and development policies for almost two decades. Her current work includes methodological innovations for capturing womens work better and incorporating the care economy concerns within the economic policy discourse.

Dipa Sinha is a Delhi based independent researcher. She writes and researches on issues related to social policy, gender and development, food security and nutrition and public health in India. She has over 20 years of experience of working in research and policy advocacy and is associated with various rights-based campaigns.