Reclaiming Development Studies

Essays for Ashwani Saith

Edited by Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta, Servaas Storm

Publication date:

08 June 2021

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781785279966

The mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly challenged from various fronts such as decoloniality, ‘global development’ and randomized control trials. The essays featured in this collection together argue for the need of the field to reclaim its critical political economy tradition. Building on the contributions of Ashwani Saith, the contributions touch upon many of the central questions of development studies centred around structural change, labour and inequality.

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction: The Why and How of Reclaiming Development Studies, Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta and Servaas Storm; Part I Growth and Structural Change; Chapter Two The Rural Non- farm Economy in India Revisited: From Rural Industrialization to Rural Entrepreneurs, Shreya Sinha and Bhaskar Vira; Chapter Three Economic Development in China and India: A Tale of Great Divergence, Ajit K. Ghose; Chapter Four Globalization: An Enhancement of Opportunity or the Deprivation of Autonomy to Pursue Rapid and Inclusive Growth?, Azizur Rahman Khan and Anirban Dasgupta; Part II Labour; Chapter Five Labour Laws and Manufacturing Performance in India: How Priors Trump Evidence and Progress Gets Stalled, Servaas Storm; Chapter Six Making People ‘Surplus Population’ in Southern Africa, Bridget O’Laughlin; Chapter Seven Effective Demand, Surplus Labour and the Pace of Development: Rereading Kalecki and Kahn, Marc Wuyts; Chapter Eight From Assumed Reluctancy to Enforced Redundancy: The Changed Depreciation of Labour in the Transition towards Global Capitalism, Jan Breman; Part III Poverty and Inequality; Chapter Nine Poverty Reduction and Social Progress in Bangladesh: Revisiting Some Development Ideas, Wahiduddin Mahmud; Chapter Ten Sukhatme’s Legacy and the Indian Exceptionalism, C. Sathyamala; Chapter Eleven English as a Medium of Instruction in Indian Education: Inequality of Access to Educational Opportunities, Vani Borooah and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal; Chapter Twelve India’s Social Inequality as Durable Inequality: Dalits and Adivasis at the Bottom of an Increasingly Unequal Hierarchical Society, K. P. Kannan; Chapter Thirteen The Myth of Global Sustainability: Environmental Limits and (De)Growth in the Time of SDGs, Murat Arsel; List of Contributors; Index.

“A festschrift in honour of Ashwani Saith, Reclaiming Development Studies: Essays for Ashwani Saith is a scholarly critique of the current state of development studies, its underlying tensions, and its contradictions. Rebutting dominant approaches, the book offers a stimulating study of development as an enduring societal aspiration requiring a truly interdisciplinary method of study, in the tradition of Saith’s wide-ranging, articulate and incisive contributions to the subject.” — Sukti Dasgupta, Chief, Employment, Labour Markets and Youth Branch, ILO, Geneva.