An Introduction to India's Economic Development Since the Nineteenth Century
Author: Amlan Datta
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780861322190
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Author: Amlan Datta
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780861322190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dietmar Rothermund
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 113487944X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to place the development of agriculture, industry and currency in a political and historical context.
Author: Tirthankar Roy
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0262369273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow interventions to mitigate climate-caused poverty and inequality in India came at a cost to environmental sustainability. In the monsoon regions of South Asia, the rainy season sustains life but brings with it the threat of floods, followed by a long stretch of the year when little gainful work is possible and the threat of famine looms. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, a series of interventions by Indian governments and other actors mitigated these conditions, enabling agricultural growth, encouraging urbanization, and bringing about a permanent decrease in death rates. But these actions—largely efforts to ensure wider access to water—came at a cost to environmental sustainability. In Monsoon Economies, Tirthankar Roy explores the interaction between the environment and the economy in the emergence of modern India. Roy argues that the tropical monsoon climate makes economic and population growth contingent on water security. But in a water-scarce world, the means used to increase water security not only created environmental stresses but also made political conflict more likely. Roy investigates famine relief, the framing of a seasonal “water famine,” and the concept of public trust in water; the political movements that challenged socially sanctioned forms of deprivation; water as a public good; water quality in cities; the shift from impounding river water in dams and reservoirs to exploring groundwater; the seasonality of a monsoon economy; and economic lessons from India for a world facing environmental degradation.
Author: Daniel Yergin
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780684829753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Juliette Levy
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0271052147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the nineteenth century, Yucat&án moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucat&án and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional and historical example of overdependence on foreign markets and extortionary local elites. In The Making of a Market, Juliette Levy argues instead that local social and economic dynamics are the root of the region&’s development. She shows how credit markets contributed to the boom before banks (and bank crises) existed and how people borrowed before the creation of institutions designed specifically to lend. As the intermediaries in this lending process, notaries became unwitting catalysts of Yucat&án&’s capitalist transformation. By focusing attention on the notaries&’ role in structuring the mortgage market rather than on formal institutions such as banks, this study challenges the easy compartmentalization of local and global relationships and of economic and social relationships.
Author: A. Booth
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-03-04
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0333994965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndonesia is now the fourth largest country in the world, but many aspects of its economic history remain poorly understood. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Indonesian economic history in the 19th and 20th centuries, examining both the Dutch colonial era, and the post-independence period. Extensive use is made of recent work by Dutch, Indonesian and Australian scholars to develop a number of key themes relating to economic growth and structural transformation of the Indonesian economy from the early 19th century to the present.
Author: Şevket Pamuk
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0691166374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive history of the Turkish economy The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries, Şevket Pamuk examines the economic growth and human development of Turkey over the past two hundred years. Taking a comparative global perspective, Pamuk investigates Turkey’s economic history through four periods: the open economy during the nineteenth-century Ottoman era, the transition from empire to nation-state that spanned the two world wars and the Great Depression, the continued protectionism and import-substituting industrialization after World War II, and the neoliberal policies and the opening of the economy after 1980. Making use of indices of GDP per capita, trade, wages, health, and education, Pamuk argues that Turkey’s long-term economic trends cannot be explained only by immediate causes such as economic policies, rates of investment, productivity growth, and structural change. Uneven Centuries offers a deeper analysis of the essential forces underlying Turkey’s development—its institutions and their evolution—to make better sense of the country’s unique history and to provide important insights into the patterns of growth in developing countries during the past two centuries.
Author: Takashi Shiraishi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9811326347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic dynamics of emerging states, such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, and ASEAN countries. Their rapid economic development has changed the distribution of wealth and power in the world. Yet many of them have middle income status. To global governance issues, they tend to adopt approaches that differ from those of advanced industrialized democracies. At home, rapid economic growth and social changes put pressure on their institutions to change. This volume traces the historical trajectories of two major emerging states, China and India, and two city states, Hong Kong and Singapore. It also analyzes cross-country data to find the general patterns of economic development and sociopolitical change in relation to globalization and to the middle income trap.
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1724
ISBN-13: 9781857431339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique survey of each country in the region. It includes an extensive collection of facts, statistics, analysis and directory information in one accessible volume.
Author: Chetan Ghate
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 973
ISBN-13: 0199734585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia's remarkable economic growth in recent years has made it one of the fastest growing economies in the world. This Oxford Handbook reflects India's growing economic importance on the world stage, and features research on core topics by leading scholars to understand the Indian economic miracle and the obstacles India faces in transforming itself into a modern 21st-century economy.