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24%OFFArvind Panagariya - Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries - 9781610393737 - V9781610393737
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Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

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Description for Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QFG; GTF; HBJF; JFSC; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 360.
In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty?Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies. Their radical message has huge consequences for economists, development NGOs and anti-poverty campaigners worldwide. There are ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781610393737
SKU
V9781610393737
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About Arvind Panagariya
Jagdish Bhagwati is university professor of economics at Columbia, and a long time fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A native of India, Professor Bhagwati studied at Cambridge University, MIT, and Oxford before returning to India in 1961 as professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute. He is the author of many books, among them In defence of ... Read more

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