By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature,
Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most …

Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as
well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science …

The article reviews evidence on agrarian change in India, including studies of the impact of
the 'green revolution', of agrarian politics, and of rural labour. The classic thesis proposed by …

Agricultural growth is essential for fostering economic development and feeding growing
populations in most developing countries. As land and water become increasingly scarce …

Drawing on long-term field engagement with microcredit programs in rural northern Tamil
Nadu (South India), in this article I examine how this specific form of debt is used …

A new institutional economics perspective is used to review the effects of market
liberalization on service provision to smallholder farmers in developing countries. The …

In his book 'Why Poor People Stay Poor'the author has argued that urban bias is the moving
force behind needlessly slow and inequitable growth in contemporary developing countries …

This paper traces the rise of a new class of businessmen out of the class of capitalist farmers
in coastal Andhra Pradesh and explores some of its social and economic characteristics …

This literature review aims at summarizing the state of knowledge related to small urbanised
settlements. The significance of researching these localities can be inferred from the fact that …

The choice of the word 'perspective'in the title of this lecture exploits the ambiguity to which
the English language so happily lends itself. For the lecture will, on the one hand, look back …