Poverty and Social Exclusion in India.
Title:
Poverty and Social Exclusion in India.
Author:
Bank, The World.
ISBN:
9780821387337
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (169 pages)
Series:
Equity and Development
Contents:
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Overview -- Organization of the Report -- Main Findings -- Common Themes -- Notes -- References -- 2 Adivasis -- Poverty and the Gap between Adivasis and Non-Adivasis -- The Survival Disadvantage: Mortality among Adivasi Children -- Other Processes Related to Higher Mortality among Adivasi Children -- Land and Natural Resources: A Central Role in Explaining Tribal Deprivation -- Adivasi Deprivation Is Tied Up with the Limited Voice of Adivasis -- Notes -- References -- 3 Dalits -- Educational Expansion for All: Yet More for Some than for Others -- How Does the Labor Market Behave toward Dalits? -- Social Networks: Does It Boil Down to Whom You Know? -- Voice and Agency Have Accompanied Economic Change -- Conclusion -- Annex -- Notes -- References -- 4 Women -- The Survival Disadvantage -- Markets and Assets: Some Progress, but Continuing Disadvantage -- Voice and Visibility in Public Spaces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Despite India?s record of rapid economic growth and poverty reduction over recent decades,rising inequality in the country has been a subject of concern among policy makers,academics, and activists alike.Poverty and Social Exclusion in India focuses on social exclusion, which has its roots in India?shistorical divisions along lines of caste, tribe, and the excluded sex, that is, women. These inequalitiesare more structural in nature and have kept entire groups trapped, unable to take advantageof opportunities that economic growth offers. Culturally rooted systems perpetuate inequality, and,rather than a culture of poverty that afflicts disadvantaged groups, it is, in fact, these inequalitytraps that prevent these groups from breaking out. Combining rigorous quantitative research witha discussion of these underlying processes, this book finds that exclusion can be explained byinequality in opportunities, inequality in access to markets, and inequality in voice and agency.This report will be of interest to policy makers, development practitioners, social scientists,and academics working to foster equality in India.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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