An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions

By J. Drèze, Amartya Sen. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Reetika Khera
2. Sanjay K. Jain
3. Jaideep Prabhu
4. S. Alkire
5. Andaleeb Rahman
6. Geeta Kingdon
7. J. Drèze
8. P. Pingali

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Roche
2. S. Alkire
3. Ana Vaz
4. Jaideep Prabhu
5. Reetika Khera
6. Sanjay K. Jain
7. Geeta Kingdon
8. J. Drèze

Citations in the corpus

• Recent Social Security Initiatives in India (2017, positive): “After stagnating for the first half of the 2000s, agricultural wages grew at around 3 to 4 per cent per year in real terms during the second half (Drèze and Sen, 2013, Table 7.1).”
• Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 (2019, neutral): “251 Drèze and Sen, 2013.”
• Changes Over Time in Multidimensional Poverty: Methodology and Results for 34 Countries (2017, background): “Drèze and Sen (2013) among others empirically motivate such analysis, observing that the level (and change) of income per capita or of monetary poverty does not necessarily predict the levels of achieved functionings in social indicators (c.f. Bourguignon & et al., 2010).”
• The bumpy road from food to nutrition security – Slow evolution of India's food policy (2017, background): “However, since 2005 there has been a revival of PDS with expansion in coverage and reduction in leakages and targeting errors (Dreze and Khera, 2015; , 2011b) famously referred to as “new style PDS” by Dreze and Sen (2013).”
• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (2017, neutral): “Introduction Source: Drèze and Sen (2013, 47).”
• The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review (2020, background): “Table 14 (reproduced from Dreze and Sen, 2013) confirms that this ratio of 8 is very much higher than in China, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh etc. where the ratio is typically between 1 and 2.”
• Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: Understanding jugaad (2015, positive): “These people lack access to cheap credit, savings solutions or insurance, expend large amounts of money or time in securing unhealthy heating, cooking, and lighting fuels such as kerosene or wood, and suffer from illiteracy and poor health (Drèze & Sen, 2013).”