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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “devesh kapur”
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  • A Sixth Of Humanity

    Independent India's Development Odyssey

    by Devesh Kapur, Arvind Subramanian ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    India's journey has been distinctively precocious among its peers. It opted for democracy before development and social change, promoted high-skilled services before and over low-skilled manufacturing, and chose a globalization that favored the export of talented people and short-changed the poor. Its socialist state became an inefficiently capitalist one before providing the public goods of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    by Devesh Kapur ...
    What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Public Institutions in India

    Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Milan Vaishnav ...
    While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically assess a diverse array of India’s core federal institutions, from the Supreme Court and Parliament ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • The Other One Percent

    Indians in America

    by Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, Nirvikar Singh ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Costs of Democracy

    Political Finance in India

    Edited by Devesh Kapur, Milan Vaishnav ...
    One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy is an exhaustive, ground-breaking study of money in Indian politics that opens readers’ eyes to the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Internal Security in India

    Violence, Order, and the State

    Edited by Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur ...
    Series series MODERN SOUTH ASIA SERIES
    An overarching exploration of the Indian state's approaches, laws, and organizations that maintain order and contain violence. Maintaining order and containing violence-the core constituents of internal security-are fundamental responsibilities of any government. Yet, developing countries find this task especially challenging. In Internal Security in India, Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur, and a cast of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Edited by Devesh Kapur, Lily Kong, Florence Lo, David M. Malone ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific's share of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent between 1970 and 2017 and is projected to account for half of ... Read more

    $172.99 CAD

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  • Public Administration in India

    The Higher Civil Service

    by S.R. Maheshwari ...
    This book is about public administration in India, which is often synonymous with the role and performance of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The author stresses the indispensability of the civil service in a democratic polity like India and the decisive role it plays in assisting with the social and economic development of the country. He also examines the corruption in the bureaucracy ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

    Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, Srinath Raghavan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other growing ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Why Growth Matters

    How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

    by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya ...
    In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty?Bhagwati and Panagariya ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Anarchist Cookbook

    by Aakar Patel, Pen Pencil Draw ...
    We live in times when large numbers of people are participating in democracy in deeper and more meaningful ways. From India to the United States to Hong Kong, democratic societies have seen movements that have brought about change. They have one thing in common: large scale participation by civil society and individuals and the absence of organized political parties.How can individuals make their ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence

    Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India

    Edited by Angana P. Chatterji, Shashi Buluswar, Mallika Kaur ...
    Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and quotidian gendered and sexualized violence by states and collectives holds in place fraught and unjust histories and relations between elites and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD