1st Edition
Inclusive Development in South Asia
This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology.
The book offers an analysis of the existing ground realities in terms of economic and inclusive development, presenting relevant discussion and findings. It discusses lower castes, tribes, religious/ethnic minorities, and other socially vulnerable people, as well as gender, rural–urban, and educational disparities in South Asia, and highlights that all these issues are interrelated. Structured in two parts—Spatial Dimensions, Labour, and Migration, and Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion—the chapters present emerging new concepts related to socio-economic and inclusive development and use effective and valid methods and methodology covering the ground realities-based information and secondary data-based analysis. Evaluating the extent to which inclusive development has been realised in South Asia, the contributors explore a new approach towards the concept of ‘inclusiveness’ by drawing on the experiences of the diverse societies in South Asia.
An immensely useful contribution to the analysis of different economic and social issues in different countries in South Asia, focusing on inclusivity, this book will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Politics and Development Economics.
Introduction: ‘Inclusive Development’ in South Asia Toshie Awaya And Kazuo Tomozawa PART I Spatial Dimensions, Labour and Migration 1. Three Spatial Layers of the Indian Economy: Regional Disparities, Industrial Locations and Labour Market Kazuo Tomozawa; 2. Regional Diversity of Work Opportunities and New Economic Space in India Kentaro Kuwatuska; 3. The burgeoning small towns of India: lessons for inclusive development Eric Denis; 4. Education system and economic development in rural Bangladesh: a comparative study between remote and suburban rural villages Tatsuya Kusakabe; 5. Mobility between formal and informal sectors and inclusiveness: a study of Ahmedabad Junko Kiso; 6. Indian migration and labour markets Shuji Uchikawa; 7 International migration from India and the GCM: inclusion and exclusion in South Asia? Binod Khadria Part 2 Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion 8. Higher education and the future of social inequality in India Satish Despande; 9. Education to include the first educated generation into an unequal society in Bangladesh Kazuyo Minamide; 10. Becoming Dalit: Ambedkarite movements and inter-caste marriages in and around Nagpur Tatsushi Nemoto; 11. Do ‘Islamic norms’ impede inclusive development of women? a case study of Islamic education for women in rural Bangladesh Ai Sugie; 12. From ‘failed development’ to ‘inclusive development’? views of ethnic / caste minority women Seika Sato; 13. Destitution in old age: living through asymmetrical relations Sae Nakamura; 14. Universal basic income and land rights for women: an anti-capitalist critique Nivedita Menon
Biography
Toshie Awaya is Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
Kazuo Tomozawa is Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
