Suchergebnisse

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of India's social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and explores both resilience and vulnerabilities in Indian society. It provides an in-depth look into diverse aspects of how Indians live, earn a living and care for their children by examining vital indicators such as poverty, malnutrition, health and marriage and family relationships, among others. Analysing the data from the India Human Development Surveys, it presents a complex picture of India's transformation and large economic and educational gains, while exploring the reasons why these have not translated into social transformation of a similar magnitude. The volume also describes the backdrop against which the COVID-19 pandemic crippled the Indian economy. In effect, it foreshadows the challenges that need to be addressed on the road to recovery. It argues that in order to reduce the scarring and ensure recovery for all, it will be important to focus on the underlying conditions faced by the most vulnerable sections of the Indian society as policymakers seek to effectively tend to issues of socio-economic inequality and marginalisation in the long run. Rich in data and analysis, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of economics, political economy, sociology and development studies.

List of FiguresList of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements1 India⁰́₉s Social and Economic Transformation: Introduction PALLAVI CHOUDHURI, SONALDE DESAI AND AMARESH DUBEY2 Why Did Poverty Decline in India? A Non-parametric Decomposition Exercise CARLOS FELIPE BALC©¹ZAR, SONALDE DESAI, RINKU MURGAI AND AMBAR NARAYAN3 Do Income and Income Inequality Have Any Impact on Morbidity? Evidence From the India Human Development Survey SOHINI PAUL4 Excess Weight in India: Gender Differentials, Location Patterns and Health Consequences PUSHKAR MAITRA AND NIDHIYA MENON5 Does the Growing Private Sector Deliver Schooling for All? Role of Gender, Parental Altruism and Family Wealth PUSHKAR MAITRA, SARMISTHA PAL AND ANURAG SHARMA6 Private Schooling in India: Changes in Learning and Achievement Experience SUVARNA PANDE AND AMARESH DUBEY7 Expectations of Support From Daughters in India: The Role of Education, Employment and Empowerment ABHIJIT VISARIA8 Are the Young and the Educated More Likely to Have ⁰́₋Love⁰́₊ Than Arranged Marriage? A Study of Autonomy in Partner Choice in India MANJISTHA BANERJI9 The Impact of Household Membership in Community-Based Organisations on Child Health and Education in Rural India MUGDHA VAIDYA, MEGHNA KATOCH RANA AND NABANITA DATTA GUPTAIndex

1. Introduction : giving meaning to civic innovation / Kees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter Knorringa -- 2. The institutional foundations of civic innovation / Georgina M. Gomez and Holly A. Ritchie -- 3. Change actors and civic innovators : who triggers change? Systematising the role of interlocutors in civic innovation processes / Alan Fowler -- 4. Can consultants be civic innovators? Exploring their roles as auditors and allies / Sylvia I. Bergh and Kees Biekart -- 5. Between state, market and civil society : what constitutes the social in social entrepreneurship? / A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing -- 6. Civic innovation in value chains : towards workers as agents in non-governmental labour regulation / Karin Astrid Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa -- 7. Civic innovation by family farmers in the face of global value chain inclusion : between material conditions and imagined futures / Lee Pegler and Wanessa Marques Silva -- 8. Exploring embodiment and intersectionality in transnational feminist activist research / Wendy Harcourt, Rosalba Icaza and Virginia Vargas -- 9. Towards new perspectives on labour precarity adn decent work for sex workers' / Silke Heumann, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Empower Foundation -- 10. Resistance and hope : youth responses to the economic crisis in Southern Europe / Paulina (Sat) Trejo-Mendez. [et al.] -- 11. Civic activism and social accountability : a quantitative approach / Anderson Macedo de Jesus and Irene van Staveren -- 12. Minding the gap between activism and academia, or bridging it? Reflections on how to do civic innovation research / Kees Biekart and Karin Astrid Siegmann -- 13. Conclusion : moving agendas forward / Wendy Harcourt, Kees Biekart and Peter Knorringa.

This volume of essays is a reflection on social memory as a force for social and economic transformation. Written by scholars and organic intellectuals, it focuses on the uses of social memory, in particular the conflict between the legacies of colonialism and the movement for fundamental change. The content addresses both experts and ordinary citizens alike, with a view to advancing discourse on where we are right now, and how we move on from here to achieve meaningful transformation. As scholars and public representatives with a deep understanding of the social, economic and political dynamics of modern history of South Africa, the contributors offer their unique perspectives and reflections on history, politics, economics, culture, education, ethics and the arts, as well as the links that bind these aspects into an ecology of ideas and attitudes.

East-central European cities arrived at a new phase of their development after the collapse of the former political system. This paper seeks to explore the impact of recent political and economic changes in Budapest, focusing mainly upon problems linked to the privatisation of the built environment and economic life. The rapid transformation of the economy not only reorganises the function and the role of Budapest within its wider region, but also reshapes the internal structure of the city. Due to the large-scale privatisation of housing and the very dynamic growth of the private economy, there is a functional conversion of the central part of the city. Small-scale businesses are mushrooming, and many of the newly established firms rent or buy recently privatised flats for office and business purposes. The dynamic growth of the so-called service sector and business-oriented employment also tends to generate a rapid population change and the improvement of the socio-economic status of certain neighbourhoods.

The current economic era, characterized by the rapid and global dissemination of information and capital, has been called the ""knowledge age, "" the ""entrepreneurial society, "" and the ""intangibles economy, "" among other labels. Technological and productivity improvements continue to shift the emphasis from the mastery of physical assets (e.g., natural resources, factories) and physical tools (e.g., machines) to that of intangible assets (e.g., education, R & D projects, brands, patents) and socio-cultural tools (e.g., communities of knowledge practice) as the key to a community's economic pro