Interrogating inclusive growth: poverty and inequality in India
Kannan, K. P
- New Delhi Routledge 2014
- xx, 310 p.
TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Introduction
2. India’s Common People: Who are They, How Many are They and How do They Live?
3. More on India's Common People: A Regional Profile
4. Growth sans Employment: A Quarter Century of Jobless Growth in India's Organised Manufacturing
5. Dualism, Informality and Social Inequality
6. The Long Road to Social Security
7. How Inclusive is Inclusive Growth in India?
8. Low Participation and High Informalisation: Is this a `Virtous Circle' in the Growth Employment Interaction?
In a radical assessment of ‘inclusive growth’, this book probes the impact of neo-liberal policies on employment, poverty and inequality. It critiques the claim that market-friendly economic reform policies ‘trickle down’ to the poor and reduce poverty and deprivation. The author uses exhaustive data - from the formal and informal sectors - to create a profile of the aam aadmi. He advocates the need for a broad-based growth and development strategy that alone will address the many-sided social and economic inequalities in India. The volume will be useful to scholars and students of economics, development studies, labour studies, and sociology.