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Environmental Governance in Small Cities: Decentralization, Municipal Capacity and Autonomy in Gujarat and West Bengal Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 René Véron, Anna Zimmer, Natasha Cornea, Jérémie Sanchez
India’s 74th Constitutional Amendment obliges state governments to devolve responsibilities related to urban environmental resources and services to the Urban Local Bodies. However, the existing literature points to deficiencies in urban decentralization, including a mismatch between resources and responsibilities, financial constraints, and a lack of capacities at the municipal level. This article
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Differences in the Graduate Educational Attainment of Social Groups in India: Preferences for Education Versus Education-Friendly Endowments Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Vani Kant Borooah
The focus of this article is on the ‘educational attainment’ of social groups in India, defined as the proportion of 21–29-year-olds in the different social groups that are graduates. Within this context, the article makes three contributions. The first is in terms of decomposition methodology: It shows how decomposition analysis can be used to breakdown graduate educational attainment (GEA) by population
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Book review: Isabelle Guerin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramaniam. 2023. The Indebted Woman, Kinship, Sexuality and Capitalism Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Judith Heyer
Isabelle Guerin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramaniam. 2023. The Indebted Woman, Kinship, Sexuality and Capitalism. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 228. ISBN 9781503636910 (ebook), £19; ISBN 9781503636316 (hardback), £86; ISBN 9781503636903 (paperback), £20.
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Book review: Sanjeev Routray. 2022. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Sujeet Kumar
Sanjeev Routray. 2022. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 368, $30, ISBN 9781503632134 (paperback).
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A Range of Informality Across Cities and Slums: Understanding Precarity in Patna’s Slums Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Anirudh Krishna, Sujeet Kumar, Emily Rains
This article proposes a framework for understanding why slum residents are particularly vulnerable to economic downturns. We centre evidence from Bihar’s capital city, Patna, to examine how downtur...
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Tāqat, Shakti or Empowerment(s)? Describing the Experience of Power: A Decade of Observations in One Informal Settlement of Patna, India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Hugo Ribadeau Dumas
What concepts are best suitable to describe the individual and collective experience of power? Leveraging primary empirical data collected over a decade, the study dwells on the idea of empowerment...
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Book review: Pankaj Sekhsaria. 2020. Nano Scale: Society’s Deep Impact on Science, Technology and Innovation in India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Aniket Aga
Pankaj Sekhsaria. 2020. Nano Scale: Society’s Deep Impact on Science, Technology and Innovation in India. Delhi: Authors UPFRONT, 182 pp., ₹495. ISBN: 9789387280700 (hardback).
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Modes of Technology Accumulation, Total Factor Productivity and Indian Manufacturing Sector: Firm-Level Analysis Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Kawaljeet Kaur, Swati Mehta
Accumulation of technology has largely been acknowledged as an important factor determining productivity of the manufacturing firms. However, there are different domestic and foreign means of techn...
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The Effect of Women’s Empowerment on Intimate Partner Violence and Child Nutrition Outcomes in India, Nepal, and Pakistan Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Vedika Inamdar, Anirudh Tagat, Aneree Parekh
Women’s empowerment is often defined to include aspects of agency, autonomy and choice, which in turn has consequences for facing intimate partner violence (IPV) and the ability of a woman to fulfi...
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‘From Plot to People’: A Photovoice Exploration of South Asian Farmer Livelihood Diversification Strategies When Extra Time and Money are Found Through Zero Tillage Adoption Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Brendan Brown, Akriti Sharma, Emma Karki, Anjana Chaudhary
Impact evaluations are dominated by the application of development economics to assess the direct impacts of change at the plot level, while studies that focus on the impact of such plot-level chan...
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Exploring ‘Country Ownership’: An Analysis of Development Cooperation Practices of Selected European Partners in Bangladesh Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Fahim Quadir
Recognizing that the political environment that once fostered a global culture of top down, conditionality-driven aid delivery is no longer in place, this theoretically informed study provides insi...
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The Effect of Development-induced Displacement on Adivasis: Evidence from the Rourkela Steel Plant Project in India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 John Kujur
This paper analyses the long-term impact of displacement by assessing the impoverishment risks among the displaced adivasi population of Rourkela resettled in peri-urban and rural resettlement colo...
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Varied Aspirations and ‘Development’: Three Spaces of Kurseong Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Lasang Lepcha
This paper investigates three different spaces, that is, the bazaar (town), comman (plantations) and busty (rural areas) within Kurseong, a small town in the Darjeeling hills, India. Based on infor...
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Experimental Evidence on Group-based Attendance Bonuses in Team Production Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Theresa Chaudhry, Zunia Tirmazee, Umair Ayaz
We test the effectiveness of a group-based attendance bonus in a field experiment in a factory in Pakistan, where workers manufacture electric fans in stages using batch-production methods. We find...
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Book review: Sanjib Baruah. 2020. In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Chandreyee Goswami
Sanjib Baruah. 2020. In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp. 296., $30, ISBN 9781503611283 (paperback).
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Book review: Shruti Chaudhry. 2021. Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy and Women’s Lives in Rural North India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Paro Mishra
Shruti Chaudhry. 2021. Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy and Women’s Lives in Rural North India. SUNY Press, 313 pages, $95.00 (Hardback). ISBN 13: 9781438485577
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Shrinking Civil Space? Exploring State and Civil Society Perspectives on the Contemporary Situation of Human Rights Defenders in South Asia Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Paul Chaney
This study analyses state and civil society organizations’ (CSOs) perspectives on the contemporary situation of human rights defenders (HRD) in South Asia using submissions to the Universal Periodi...
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When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Alessandra Mezzadri, Kaustav Banerjee
The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated processes of labour transition from industrial work to the informal economy, which have always characterized the life of the working poor. This paper explores th...
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Interstate Migration in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis Based on Mobile Visitor Location Register and Roaming Data Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Arif Nizam, P. Sivakumar, S. Irudaya Rajan
In migration and mobility studies, the availability of scientifically reliable data remains a persistent challenge. The recent move towards harnessing mobile and big data has also been unable to re...
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Development Schemes and the Hill District: Studying State–Society Relationship in Manipur Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Tanmoy Das
This article emphasizes that in thinking about the state–society relationship in the hills of Manipur, we need to refocus our attention on how development schemes shape the way the villagers percei...
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Book review: Adrian Athique and Vibodh Parthasarthy (Eds). 2020. Platform Capitalism in India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Suryansu Guha
Adrian Athique and Vibodh Parthasarthy (Eds). 2020. Platform Capitalism in India. Springer International Publishing, 331 pages.
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Book review: Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.). 2021. Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Aniruddha Jena
Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.). 2021. Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves. New York: Routledge, 287 pages, ₹1495, ISBN 978-0-367-74881-4 (hardback); £24.00, ISBN 978-...
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Valuing Women’s Labour: Some Notes on the ‘Compensated’ Model of Surrogacy Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Aishwarya Chandran
Commercial surrogacy is India is currently practised amid an ambiguous, uncertain legal landscape. The article is set predominantly against the backdrop of surrogacy in India following the Surrogac...
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Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Jogasankar Mahaprashasta
The Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship (PMRDF), a flagship programme of the Ministry of Rural Development to facilitate development programme delivery in districts affected by Maoist vio...
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The Growth Volatility Relationship: A Spatial Panel Analysis of the States of India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Anuradha Patnaik
The impressive growth rate of the Indian economy and the subsequent signs of slowdown in the last few years have warranted the need to revisit the issue of determinants of growth. While most of the...
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Beyond Morality: The Moral Economy Framework and the Fisheries in Mumbai Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Gayatri Nair
The notion of the moral economy has shifted widely in interpretation over the years. Beginning as a concept to understand shifts in political economy, it has increasingly focused on the role that m...
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The Gender of Fuelwood: Headloads and Truckloads in India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Meena Khandelwal, Matthew E. Hill, Jr., Margaret Beck, Sanoop Valappanandi, Hrushikesh Mahapatra
Cookstove improvement projects in India have emerged from the longstanding concerns about the nexus of cooking, fuelwood, gender and the environment. Such work, both academic and interventionist, f...
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Globalization Versus Slowbalization: A Perspective on the Indian Economy Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Shikha Gupta, Nand Kumar
The crisis and ensuing recession have led the global leaders to focus inwards. While the trend had taken off with countries having to face rising inequality and a focus towards self-development, th...
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The Sociotechnical System of Silk Weaving in Bishnupur Region in West Bengal Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Abhradip Banerjee, Gopalkrishna Chakrabarti
The article analyses the sociotechnical system of the silk weaving industry in the Bishnupur region of West Bengal through a detailed description of processes and interactions between important technical elements and the human agents within a richly structured environment of silk cloth production. It shows that the various processes of silk cloth production and marketing constitute an ensemble of economic
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Book review: Nikita Sud. 2021. The Making of Land and the Making of India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Nikita Sud. 2021. The Making of Land and the Making of India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xxiv+253 pp., ₹1,495. ISBN 9780190130206 (hardcover).
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Exploring the Drivers of Vulnerability Among Disadvantaged Internal Migrants in Riverbank Erosion Prone Areas in North-West Bangladesh Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Mohammad Ehsanul Kabir, Palash Kamruzzaman
Bangladesh frequently suffers from acute riverbank erosions and, as a result, every year a large number of people internally migrate to new places mainly in search of livelihoods. While very few studies focus on the multifaceted nature of vulnerability experienced from riverbank erosions, the present study examines to what extent different drivers of vulnerability affect socio-economically disadvantaged
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Book review: Erik De Maaker and Meenal Tula. 2020. Unequal Land Relations in Northeast India: Custom, Gender and Market Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Debojyoti Das
Erik De Maaker and Meenal Tula. 2020. Unequal Land Relations in Northeast India: Custom, Gender and Market. Guwahati: NESRC. 178 pp., ₹150, $10, E8. ISBN: 978-81-943578-5-8.
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Structural Violence and Normalising Human Suffering: Labour Migration During the COVID Pandemic in India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Priya Deshingkar
The abrupt lockdown imposed by the Indian government at the start of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 led to unprecedented scenes of human suffering. Millions of migrant workers were suddenly made redundant, evicted from their rented accommodation and unable to travel to their villages. The Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy reports that the Consumer Pyramid Survey for April 2020 showed
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Drought, Farm Output and Heterogeneity: Evidence from Pakistan Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Hadia Majid
This article studies the impact of canal water use and communal ethnic heterogeneity on farm output during droughts. Categorizing villages where only one language is spoken as homogenous, and using a dummy variable that takes a value of one for households that use both tube-well and canal water and is zero for those that rely solely on canal water, this article performs a least squares analysis. The
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State, Labour and Emerging Natural Resource Regimes: A Case Study of Forest- Based Livelihoods in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 S. Krithi
Third world environmental policies are increasingly moving towards market-based mechanisms for conservation of natural resources. In India, the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, a key element of current policy on forest restoration, reflects this shift. While it has not been explicitly formulated as payment for ecosystem services, this policy relies on the use of market-based valuation techniques
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Revisiting Green Neoliberalism in India through the Lens of Market-Based Restoration and Reforestation Projects Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Sarah Benabou, Arne Harms
This introduction to the special issue revisits the idea of ‘green neoliberalism’ through the lens of market-based restoration and reforestation projects in India. Addressing the strategic role of forests as ‘carbon sinks’ and ‘service providers’ in today’s neoliberal reform projects, it contributes to a renewed attention to the material production of such (un)desired natures and their variegated realities
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Uphill Battle: Forest Rights and Restoration on Podu Landscapes in Keonjhar, Odisha Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Laura M. Valencia
In response to the global climate emergency and biodiversity loss, environmental advocates promote ecological restoration of millions of hectares of the world’s degraded forest lands. Lands of high value to restoration are home to nearly 300 million people, including 12% of low- and middle-income country populations. In this article, I respond to calls for greater empirical investigation into the social
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The Judicial Fix for Forest Loss: The Godavarman Case and the Financialization of India’s Forests Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Manju Menon, Kanchi Kohli
In India, the setting up of large projects in forest areas can be undertaken only after government permission is obtained under the Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA) of 1980. Today, this approval process includes the enumeration and valuation of forest loss, and the financing of compensatory afforestation schemes to offset the loss. These procedures were designed through the orders and judgements of
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Carbon Forests at the Margins of the State: The Politics of Indigenous Sovereignty and Market Environmentalism in the North-eastern Hills of India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Sarah Benabou
In the north-eastern hills of Meghalaya, the Khasi Hills project, self-advertised as ‘one of the first Redd+ initiatives in Asia to be developed and managed by indigenous governments on communal lands’, is often presented as one of the rare success stories of India’s recent experimentation with market instruments as part of its forest governance. This article uses this example to extend existing discussions
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Three Ways of Seeing a Forest: On the Social Life of Economization in Indian Carbon Forestry Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Arne Harms
Irrespective of controversies and frustrated efforts, carbon forestry—the sequestering of greenhouse gases in forests—remains a key element of climate change mitigation. Carbon forestry drives regularly rely on a market-based conservation framework, where forest dwellers are remunerated for their service of maintaining forests through dedicated financial instruments routing global funds. In this article
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Globalization and the Changing Geography of Social Life in Rural Kerala Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Mijo Luke
This article contributes to the study of globalization and social change in rural Kerala by examining the historical trajectories of educational, occupational and spatial mobility among three communities—Syrian Christians, Ezhavas and Pulayas—in the village of Kavakad, Kerala. It addresses the involvement of each community in transnational migration and related mobilities away from the village. The
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Land Acquisition, Markets and Political Networks: Evidence from the Indian Sundarbans Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Prasenjit Sarkhel, Anirban Mukherjee
In recent times, land acquisitions in India for both public and private projects are facing stiff political resistance. Existing studies on land acquisition mostly focus on optimal compensation that would secure the consent of land owners. In this article, we argue that besides compensation, membership in different types of networks such as political parties and self-help groups might influence landowner
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Book review: Maria Rashid. 2020. Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Sanaullah Khan
Maria Rashid. 2020. Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 267 pp., Price $28.00, ISBN: 9781503610415 (Hardback).
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Book review: Tom Barnes. 2018. Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Andrew Sanchez
Tom Barnes. 2018. Making Cars in the New India: Industry, Precarity and Informality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 261pp., £31.99. ISBN: 9781108433792.
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Book review: Debojyoti Das. 2018. The Politics of Swidden Farming: Environment and Development in Eastern India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Felix Padel
Debojyoti Das. 2018. The Politics of Swidden Farming: Environment and Development in Eastern India. Anthem Press, 252 pages, Price £70 (£18.36 kindle).
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Exploring the Origins of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Katsu Masaki, Jit Tshering
Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) is often dismissed by its critics as being an instrument for policy elites to address ‘national security concerns’ that started to threaten their grasp on the state around the turn of the millennium. This study problematizes this line of criticism that relegates GNH to an ‘invented tradition’ of recent origin. For this purpose, this study draws on Roy Wagner’s
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Politics of Development in Pakistan: From the Post-Independence Modernization Project to ‘Vision 2025’ Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Aliya Abbasi
This article critically analyses Pakistan’s development project since its independence in 1947 up till Vision 2025 of 2014. Vision 2025 aspires to ‘inclusive growth’ through the expansion of the market as the basis for a ‘people-centric’ approach to development. Based on a critical evaluation of Pakistan’s development trajectory, I argue that a reliance on economic growth via liberal capitalism to
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Shadow Education in India: Participation and Socioeconomic Determinants Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-08-07 Indal Kumar, Indrani Roy Chowdhury
Although shadow education in India has been in practice for a long time, the scale has grown dramatically in recent years, with the size of the industry ranging between $40 and $70 billion. Drawing from the five rounds of National Sample Survey data sets on education, the study examines the trends and socioeconomic determinants of shadow education participation in India. It also addresses the time
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Exports and Inequality: Evidence from the Highly Concentrated Textile and Garment Sector of Bangladesh Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-06-27 Md. Iqbal Bhuyan, Keun-Yeob Oh
In this study, we investigate the effects of textile and garment (T&G) exports on income inequality in Bangladesh. Focusing on T&G exports alone, which contribute more than 90% of the country’s total exports, we hypothesize that the export sector of a country being concentrated on a single industry widens income inequality. Based on time series data over the period 1991–2015, the autoregressive distributed
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Using Farmers’ Risk Tolerance to Explain Variations in Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties in Nepal Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Toritseju Begho
Rice is the leading cereal crop in Nepal and an important source of calories and plant protein. Despite the importance of rice, there are reports of widespread cultivation of older varieties with considerably large adoption lags. This warrants further investigation into the factors that influence rice farmers’ adoption decisions. Risk attitude is reported to be an important determinant of farmers’
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Bridges and Borders: Entanglements of Conservation—Conservation is Development in the Forests of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Priya Gupta
The relationship between conservation and development has undergone extensive scrutiny, primarily because of they appear to be antagonistic. Recent work points instead to their complex intermingling, such as the potential economic benefits of conservation. In this article, I argue that conservation is an inherent part of the development regime. I argue this by describing conservation practices in Nagarahole
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Book review: Alf Gunvald Nilsen. 2018. Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Jeffrey Witsoe
Alf Gunvald Nilsen. 2018. Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Book review: Jonathan Parry (in collaboration with Ajay T. G.). 2019. Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 John Harriss, Ashwin Subramanian
Jonathan Parry (in collaboration with Ajay T. G.). 2019. Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town. Delhi: Social Science Press. ISBN 978-93-83166-34-3 (paperback), pp. +702, ₹1850.
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Bridging Development and Heritage: Expert Gaze, Local Discourses, and Visual Aesthetic Crisis at Hampi World Heritage Site Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Krupa Rajangam
In this article, I explore the complex trajectory of two bridges that were proposed for construction across the River Tungabhadra in the early 1990s at locations that now fall within the boundary of Hampi, a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site (WHS) in India. The proposed bridges were considered improper forms of infrastructure development in the visual context of a WHS, and the site was placed on
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Decentralization and Its Impact on Growth in India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Fernanda Andrade de Xavier, Aparna P. Lolayekar, Pranab Mukhopadhyay
We study the effect of revenue decentralization (RD) and expenditure decentralization (ED) on sub-national growth in India from 1981–1982 to 2015–2016 for 14 large (non-special-category) states. Our study provides evidence that both RD and ED play a defining role in India’s sub-national growth in this three-and-a-half-decade period. We use a panel data model with fixed effects (FE) and Driscoll and
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Reading the Entanglements of Nature-culture Conservation and Development in Contemporary India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-05-11 Krupa Rajangam, Aparna Sundar
In this article we argue for greater attention to the practice of (nature-culture) conservation as a specific form of intervention with implications for development. Outlining the dominant frameworks through which the often vexed relationship between conservation and development has been understood, the article offers an alternative analytical framework that is grounded in ethnographic attention to
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Innovation Challenges in South Asia: Evidence from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-04-04 Fatma Nur Karaman Kabadurmus
In literature, the implications of resource constraints for innovation outcomes are conflicting. A broad body of empirical research focuses on the negative impacts of such constraints, most of which use data from advanced economies. However, recently some scholars argue that in emerging economies, innovation occurs in spite of and even because of the poor investment environment. Using firm-level data
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Frenemies: Marine Turtle Conservation and Economic Development in the Rushikulya Coast, Eastern India Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Madhuri Ramesh
The discourse on biodiversity conservation often presents this domain as an antithesis to economic development. However, in practice, the relation between conservation and development is far more complex because conservationists possess limited powers and must give serious consideration to the economic aspirations of others in any given region, such as local communities and industries. Moreover, conservationists
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Book review: Carol Upadhya, Mario Rutten and Leah Koskimaki, Eds. 2018. Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-03-03 Prabudh Singh
Carol Upadhya, Mario Rutten and Leah Koskimaki, Eds. 2018. Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-06962-6 (hardcover), pp. 194, $155.00
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Book review: Ashwini Tambe. 2019. Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws Journal of South Asian Development (IF 0.464) Pub Date : 2021-03-03 Sneha Krishnan
Ashwini Tambe. 2019. Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws. University of Illinois Press. 218 pp., paperback, £19.99. ISBN: 978-0252084560.