The State and Poverty in India

ISBN-13: 9780521378765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 276 str.

Atul Kohli

Opis

This analysis of the role of government in eradicating India's rural poverty raises a whole series of crucial contemporary issues relating to the state, its degree of autonomy in the developing world and the problems of effecting genuine redistributive reform. The particular importance of the book is that it focuses attention on the nature of ruling political parties as an important factor influencing the success or failure of redistributive and welfare politics in a democratic capitalist setting. The author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government are the most effective in implementing reform.