'This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to
development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have …

Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to
access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates …

This book represents my engagement with development studies over many years. To guide
the reader here is a brief overview of the treatment and arguments in the different chapters …

This paper analyses the rapid expansion in outflows of foreign direct investment from India
and the spurt in foreign acquisitions by Indian firms, during the past decade, situated in the …

Resurgent Asia analyses the phenomenal transformation of Asia, which would have been
difficult to imagine, let alone predict, fifty years ago, when Gunnar Myrdal published Asian …

Income security, social comparisons and materialism: Determinants of subjective financial
well-being among Indian adults | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert …

India's sequencing of economic and political development has been unusual. In contrast to
the West and more recently East Asia, democratization has preceded economic growth …

The rise of the West is often attributed the presence of certain features in Western countries
from the 16th century that were absent in more traditional societies: the abolition of serfdom …

The story of economic development in independent India is often distorted by beliefs in
fashion or caricatures of perceptions which shape conventional wisdom. This is misleading …

The article argues that twenty-first century globalization is markedly different from twentieth
century globalization and reviews the major changes. The discussion focuses on the portée …