This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It
begins by developing a simple model to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed …

Kerala, a small state in South India, has been celebrated as a development model by
scholars across the world for its exemplary achievements in human development and …

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and
outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is …

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments:
from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk …

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this
major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an …

Over the last two centuries, the impact of the Human System has grown dramatically,
becoming strongly dominant within the Earth System in many different ways. Consumption …

Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World
problem. Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world …

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house
to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can …

Doing Qualitative Research in Social Work endeavours to provide a one-stop reference
point for all the deliberations, decisions and practices that are entailed in qualitative …

Annotation This book melds rich ethnography with an understanding of recent history to
understand the issues surrounding upward social mobility, modernity and changing …