An uncertain glory : India and its contradictions /

When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and...

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Những tác giả chính: Drèze, Jean (Tác giả), Sen, Amartya, 1933- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2013.
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Mục lục:
  • A new India?
  • Integrating growth and development
  • India in comparative perspective
  • Accountability and corruption
  • The centrality of education
  • India's health care crisis
  • Poverty and social support
  • The grip of inequality
  • Democracy, inequality and public reasoning
  • The need for impatience.