A Review of South Asian Studies
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 43
ISSN: 0026-749X
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In: Modern Asian studies, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 43
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 23, Heft Jan 87
ISSN: 0022-0388
Examines the methodologies, assumptions and data base for the quantification of the local and non-local regional multiplier effects from agricultural development, and discusses the contradictory interpretations for agricultural policy which have arisen from these exercises of quantification. Makes an attempt to explain their bases. (Abstract amended)
In: Challenge: the magazine of economic affairs, Band 10, Heft 7, S. 9-13
ISSN: 1558-1489
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 21, Heft 6, S. 776-780
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractResponding to three plenary addresses at the DSA conference 2008, and another written contribution, this paper comments on the invisible hand; the dynamics of institutional change; the role of the (commodified) state; 'markets' versus actually existing capitalism and the implications of global warming for development studies. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Despite the promise in the Constitution of India (1950) to establish universal elementary education within a decade, for many years this goal received neither the attention of politicians nor the resources for its achievement. This began to change in the early 1990s with several innovative programmes - notably the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, introduced in 2001 - and then with the passage of the Right to Education Act in 2009. Much has been achieved in this time. School infrastructure has been greatly improved, and enrolment is now virtually universal among girls and boys, and is nearly universal among members of historically marginalized groups in Indian society, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Nevertheless, education in India is still under-resourced, and there remain problems of retention and of the quality of education, which has deteriorated since the Right to Education Act came into effect. In addition, the numbers of children being educated in private schools has increased to about a third of the total. Analysing reasons for the continuing problems of elementary education in India - in which the needs for focus on learning, for attention to the training and accountability of teachers and for deepening of parental involvement are all generally recognized - this paper develops the argument that there has to be extensive innovation in the ways in which schooling is managed. In a sector that involves both very large numbers of transactions and high levels of discretion on the parts of the service providers, most importantly teachers, an administration that only follows rules will not do. ; Prepared for the UNRISD project New Directions in Social Policy: Alternatives for and from the Global South
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In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 451-453
ISSN: 1469-364X
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 86, Heft 3, S. 561-568
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Pacific affairs, Band 86, Heft 3, S. 561-568
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 1-2
ISSN: 2158-9100
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 279-282
ISSN: 0022-0388
In: The European journal of development research, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 61-81
ISSN: 1743-9728
In: Sociologia ruralis, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 166-179
ISSN: 1467-9523
In: Commonwealth and comparative politics, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 561-563
ISSN: 1743-9094
In: Pacific affairs, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 202
ISSN: 0030-851X