Rather than working at the "horizontal" effects of globalization, the contributors of these nine essays work on the different "scales" of development, at the local, regional, national and international levels from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes methods drawn from geography, economics, sociology, agronomy and history. They note that such a complex approach is absolutely necessary in the case of India, because development there cannot be ascribed to one particular locale or discipline. Basing their work on field research, contributors offer such topics as regional liberalization, health care systems caught in international globalization, limited globalization in the electricity sector, development particular to one industrial district or industry, a large planned project with different players, self-sufficiency in the case of oil seeds, differing production rates of a commodity in different locales, and rural development's affects on food security. Distributed by South Asia Books. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Brings together the interdisciplinary work of a group of French social science scholars who have specialized on India. This book focusses on the different levels of development - local, regional, national and international.
