Inclusive Development in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032303727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str.

Opis

This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology and will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Politics and Development Economics.

Spis treści

Introduction: ‘Inclusive Development’ in South Asia PART I Spatial Dimensions, Labour and Migration 1. Three Spatial Layers of the Indian Economy: Regional Disparities, Industrial Locations and Labour Market; 2. Regional Diversity of Work Opportunities and New Economic Space in India; 3. The burgeoning small towns of India: lessons for inclusive development; 4. Education system and economic development in rural Bangladesh: a comparative study between remote and suburban rural villages; 5. Mobility between formal and informal sectors and inclusiveness: a study of Ahmedabad; 6. Indian migration and labour markets; 7 International migration from India and the GCM: inclusion and exclusion in South Asia? Part 2 Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion 8. Higher education and the future of social inequality in India; 9. Education to include the first educated generation into an unequal society in Bangladesh; 10. Becoming Dalit: Ambedkarite movements and inter-caste marriages in and around Nagpur; 11. Do ‘Islamic norms’ impede inclusive development of women? a case study of Islamic education for women in rural Bangladesh; 12. From ‘failed development’ to ‘inclusive development’? views of ethnic / caste minority women; 13. Destitution in old age: living through asymmetrical relations; 14. Universal basic income and land rights for women: an anti-capitalist critique