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An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen

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After regaining independence in 1947, India immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system. The famines of the British era disappeared, along with economic stagnation; despite a recent dip, India's growth remains among the fastest in the world. Yet, Drèze and Sen argue, there have been failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's living conditions.

This book presents a powerful analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.

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Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen

Jean Drèze has lived in India since 1979 and became an Indian citizen in 2002. He has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics, and he is now a visiting professor at Allahabad University. He is the coauthor (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action and India: Development and Participation.

Amartya Sen is the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His many books include Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian, Identity and Violence, and The Idea of Justice.

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An Uncertain Glory is an excellent, highly readable, and exceptionally meaningful book.- S. Prakash Sethi, Business Ethics Quarterly

[E]legant and restrained prose, and with an array of fresh examples.- Ramachandra Guha, Financial Times

After three decades of trawling the data compiled by central and state governments, Indian nongovernmental organizations, and international bodies, these longtime collaborators know--possibly better than any other commentators--how Indian governments since the 1980s have failed the vast majority of Indians, especially in health care, education, poverty reduction, and the justice system.- Andrew Robinson, Science

It's an urgent, passionate, political work that makes the case that India cannot move forward without investing significantly--as every other major industrialized country has already done--in public services. . . . This book is . . . a heartfelt plea to rethink what progress in a poor country ought to look like.- Jyoti Thottam, New York Times Book Review

Sen and Dreze are right to draw attention to the limits of India's success and how much remains to be done. They are exemplary scholars, and everything they say is worth careful study.- Clive Crook, Bloomberg News

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AuthorAmartya Sen
PublisherPrinceton Univ Pr
Publication date22 March 2015
LanguageEnglish
Number of page433 pages
Product Dimensions 14.73 x 2.54 x 22.61 cm
BindingPaperback
ISBN9780141975825

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Weight0.5440

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