1st Edition
Human Development and Social Power Perspectives from South Asia
By Ananya Mukherjee Reed
Copyright 2008
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the pervasive global failure to achieve the Millennium Development Goals are constant reminders of this crisis. An equally, and even more distressing dimension of human development is its great unevenness. Even in countries with high levels of human development it... Read more
Introduction: Human Development - Has the Paradigm Failed Us?1. Conceptualising Human Development: Towards a Social Power Approach2. Human Development in India: A Profile of Unevenness3. Uneven Human Development in India: A Social Power Perspective4. Human Development in Pakistan and Bangladesh: A Profile5. Uneven Human Development in Pakistan and Bangladesh6. Conclusions: Agency, Human Development & Social Power
Biography
Ananya Mukherjee Reed
