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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (22)
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  • MFK München
  • Durham : Duke University Press  (13)
  • Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar  (9)
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  • 1
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    Brown saviors and their others : race, caste, labor & the global politics of help in India (2023)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478025092 , 1478025093 , 9781478020110
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 336 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Altruism Political aspects ; Altruism Economic aspects ; Public welfare Moral and ethical aspects ; Social stratification Economic aspects ; Marginality, Social Economic aspects ; Capitalism Social aspects ; Ethnic Studies ; Ethnic studies ; HISTORY / Social History ; SOC008020 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General ; India Social policy ; India ; Indien ; Indien ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Bildungswesen ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Arjun Shankar draws from his long-term ethnographic work with an educational NGO in India to critique the role of the brown savior -the group of globally mobile, upper-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who dominate India s contemporary help economy
    Abstract: "In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown saviors"-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India's help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated with who and how to help that have been passed down from the colonial period while masking other operations of power behind the racial politics of global brownness. In India, these operations of power center largely on the transnational labor politics of caste. Ever attentive to moments of discomfort and complicity, Shankar develops a method of "nervous ethnography" to uncover the global racial hierarchies, graded caste stratifications, urban/rural distinctions, and digital panaceas that shape the politics of help in India. Through nervous critique, Shankar introduces a framework for the study of the global help economies that reckons with the ongoing legacies of racial and caste capitalism"--
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  • 2
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    Semiotics of rape : sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India (2023)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478019343 , 9781478016717
    Language: English
    Pages: xxvii, 208 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Oza, Rupal Semiotics of rape
    Keywords: Rape culture ; Rape Attitudes ; Rape victims ; Rural women Crimes against ; Social structure ; Social problems ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; HISTORY / Asia / South / General ; India Social life and customs ; Indien ; Indien Nordwest ; Haryana ; Vergewaltigung ; Ländlicher Raum ; Soziale Probleme ; Opfer ; Verbrechensopfer
    Abstract: "In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body, but a language through which a range of issues-including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice-are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely examines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy by refusing to see themselves as defined entirely by the act of violation. Oza also shows how rape cases become arenas where bureaucrats, village council members, caste communities, and the police debate women's sexual subjectivities and how those varied understandings impact the status and reputations of individuals and groups. In this way, rape gains meaning beyond the level of the survivor and victim to create a social category. By tracing the shifting meanings of sexual violence and justice, Oza offers insights into the social significance of rape in India and beyond"--
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  • 3
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    Hailing the state : Indian democracy between elections (2023)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478018766 , 9781478016120
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 300 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mitchell, Lisa, 1966- Hailing the state
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mitchell, Lisa Hailing the State
    RVK:
    MH 14075
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    MH 14091
    Keywords: Democracy ; Political participation ; Elections ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; India Politics and government 21st century ; Indien ; Politische Beteiligung ; Demonstration
    Abstract: "In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable, demand inclusion in decision making, and stage informal referendums. Mitchell traces the colonial and postcolonial lineages of collective forms of assembly, in which participants-rather than rejecting state authority-mobilize with expectations that officials will uphold the law and fulfill electoral promises. She shows how assembly, which ranges from sit-ins, hunger strikes, and demands for meetings with officials to massive general strikes and road and rail blockades, is fundamental to the functioning of democracy in India. These techniques are particularly useful for historically marginalized groups and others whose voices may not be easily heard. Moving beyond an exclusive focus on electoral processes, Mitchell argues that to understand democracy-both in India and beyond-we must also pay attention to what occurs between elections, thereby revising understanding of what is possible for democratic action around the world"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 265-286 und Index
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    Composing violence : the limits of exposure and the making of minorities (2023)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478017028 , 9781478019664
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 166 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Theory in forms
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.60954
    RVK:
    LB 51385
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    LB 48000
    Keywords: Nationale Minderheit ; Diskriminierung ; Gewalt ; Indien ; Political violence / India / Religious aspects ; Ethnic conflict / India ; Social conflict / India ; Religion and politics / India ; Muslims / Violence against / India ; Minorities / Violence against / India ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; HISTORY / Asia / South / India ; India / Politics and government ; Indien ; Gewalt ; Nationale Minderheit ; Diskriminierung
    Abstract: "In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left over one thousand dead. In Composing Violence Moyukh Chatterjee examines how highly visible political violence against minorities acts as a catalyst for radical changes in law, public culture, and power. He shows that, far from being quashed through its exposure by activists, media and politicians, state-sanctioned anti-Muslim violence set the stage for transforming India into a Hindu supremacist state. The state and civil society's responses to the violence, Chatterjee contends, reveal the constitutive features of modern democracy in which riots and pogroms are techniques to produce a form of society based on a killable minority and a triumphant majority. Focusing on courtroom procedures, police archives, legal activism, and mainstream media coverage, Chatterjee theorizes violence as a form of governance that creates minority populations. By tracing the composition of anti-Muslim violence and the legal structures that transform that violence into the making of minorities and majorities, Chatterjee demonstrates that violence is intrinsic to liberal democracy"--
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    Indifference : on the praxis of interspecies being (2023)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478025139 , 9781478020158
    Language: English
    Pages: 200 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dave, Naisargi N. (Naisargi Nitin), 1975- Indifference
    Keywords: Human-animal relationships Moral and ethical aspects ; Animals and civilization ; Animal rights Moral and ethical aspects ; Indifferentism (Ethics) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies ; Indien ; Mensch ; Tiere
    Abstract: "Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, Naisargi N. Dave illuminates an interspecies relationality premised on indifference: that is, premised on mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, fascination, desire, or animus. Building on the work of Edouard Glissant, Dave argues against the invasiveness and whiteness of curiosity in favor of indifference. In this formulation of indifference, it becomes a way to show respect for other creatures and their privacy and allows us to exist in difference from one another without intrusively gazing upon the differences of the other. The chapters span settings from animal shelters, slaughterhouses, dairy farms, city streets, and poultry factories to show how human-animal relations manifest through care and violence, but find promise in moments of indifference. Indifference describes both a mode of relationality in the world and a scholarly approach: seeking what is possible when we approach ethico-political explanations with indifference rather than commitment or antagonism"--
    Description / Table of Contents: What Is Indifference? -- Witness How Do We Come to Occupy a Different Skin? -- Biography Why Is Moral Attention to the Animal so Repulsive? -- Contradiction How Is the Otherwise Exhausted? -- Sound Can the Subaltern Be Silent? -- Interlude Take a Walk with Me -- Touch Can Indifference Be the Basis for an Ethical Engagement with the World? -- Sex What Does Cow Protection Protect? (with Alok Gupta) -- Appetite Does That Which Is Inevitable Cease to Matter?
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    Hailing the State : Indian Democracy between Elections (2023)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478023395 , 9781478093589 , 9781478016120 , 9781478018766
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mitchell, Lisa, 1966 - Hailing the state
    RVK:
    MH 14075
    RVK:
    MH 14091
    Keywords: Political science & theory ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Indien ; Politische Beteiligung ; Demonstration
    Abstract: Lisa Mitchell explores the historical and contemporary methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable
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  • 7
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    Living worth : value and values in global pharmaceutical markets (2022)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478017677 , 9781478015048
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 275 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ecks, Stefan Living Worth
    Keywords: Depressive Störung ; Arzneimittel ; Pharmaindustrie ; Indien ; Welt ; Antidepressants Economic aspects ; Antidepressants ; Depressed persons ; Depression, Mental Treatment ; Mental health Economic aspects ; Pharmaceutical industry Economic aspects ; Pharmaceutical industry Moral and ethical aspects ; Antidepressivum ; Indien
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 235-267
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    Changing the subject : feminist and queer politics in neoliberal India (2022)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478016243 , 9781478018889
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 254 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Next wave
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Roy, Srila Changing the subject
    DDC: 305.420954
    Keywords: Feminism ; Women in development ; Neoliberalism ; Non-governmental organizations ; Women Economic conditions 21st century ; Gay rights ; Queer theory ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies ; HISTORY / Asia / South / General ; Indien ; Feminismus ; Homosexualität ; Aktivismus
    Abstract: Introduction: Changing the subject of Indian feminism -- Indian feminism in the new millennium : co-option, entanglement, intersection -- Queer activism as governmentality : regulating lesbians, making queer -- Queer self-fashioning : in, out, and beyond the closet -- Feminist governmentality : entangled histories and empowered women -- Subaltern self-government : precarious transformations -- Conclusion: On critique and care.
    Abstract: "Changing the Subject maps a rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual rights under conditions of global neoliberalism in India. Srila Roy shows how feminism is itself a form of power, a site of subject-making in its own right. Against concerns about the cooptation of feminism by neoliberalism, Roy provides a detailed ethnographic account of feminism's entanglement in technologies of power and the self. Roy traces the very different trajectories of two Calcutta-based feminist NGOs: Sappho for Equality (SFE), a grassroots queer feminist organization that shifted from a consciousness-raising group to a fully funded NGO by the time of Roy's fieldwork; and Janam, which emerged in the 1990s as a more clearly neoliberal organization focusing on empowerment and development technologies including microfinance. Despite their differences, Roy shows how both SFE and Janam are tied together with India's neoliberal economic restructuring. Further, she explores the ways contemporary "milliennial feminisms" and (queer) feminist activism-NGO-based or otherwise-are haunted by older modes of governing subaltern subjects in the Global South"--
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  • 9
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    Making women pay : microfinance in urban India (2022)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478014874 , 9781478013938
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 255 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Additional Material: 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Radhakrishnan, Smitha, 1978- Making women pay
    DDC: 332.0954
    RVK:
    LB 85385
    Keywords: Finanzielle Inklusion ; Mikrofinanzierung ; Frauen ; Stadtbevölkerung ; Indien ; Microfinance Social aspects ; Women in economic development Government policy ; Discrimination in banking ; Income distribution ; Women Economic conditions 21st century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia ; Indien ; Mikrofinanzierung
    Abstract: The invisible state of gender and credit -- Men and women of the MFI -- Making women creditworthy -- Social work -- Empowerment, declined -- Distortions of distance -- Impact revisited.
    Abstract: "In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the last two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of women in the name of state-led efforts to promote financial inclusion and women's empowerment. Despite this favorable language, she argues, microfinance in India does not provide a market-oriented development intervention, even though it may appear to help women borrowers. Rather, this commercial industry seeks to extract the maximum value from its customers through exploitative relationships that benefit especially class-privileged men. Through ethnography, interviews, and historical analysis, Radhakrishnan demonstrates how the unpaid and underpaid labor of marginalized women borrowers ensures both profitability and symbolic legitimacy for microfinance institutions, their employees, and their leaders. In doing so, she centralizes gender in the study of microfinance, reveals why most microfinance programs target women, and explores the exploitative implications of this targeting."
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 233-243. Index
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  • 10
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    At the limits of cure (2021)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478014720 , 9781478013792
    Language: English
    Pages: 287 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Venkat, Bharat Jayram, 1984 - At the limits of cure
    Keywords: Indien ; Tuberkulose ; Therapie ; Geschichte 1950-
    Abstract: Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat examines what it means to be cured, and what it means for a cure to come undone. At the Limits of Cure tells a story that stretches from the colonial period--a time of sanatoria, travel cures, and gold therapy--into a postcolonial present marked by antibiotic miracles and their failures. Venkat juxtaposes the unraveling of cure across a variety of sites: in idyllic hill stations and crowded prisons, aboard ships and on the battlefield, and through research trials and clinical encounters. If cure is frequently taken as an ending (of illness, treatment, and suffering more generally), Venkat provides a foundation for imagining cure otherwise in a world of fading antibiotic efficacy.
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    Elementary aspects of the political : histories from the global south (2020)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 1478010908 , 9781478010906 , 147800987X , 9781478009870
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 274 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Theory in forms
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Banerjee, Prathama Elementary aspects of the political
    DDC: 320.01
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    MK 2700
    Keywords: Political science ; Political science Philosophy ; Political science ; Political science ; Philosophy ; India ; Indien ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Politische Philosophie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The Self -- Renunciation and Antisocial Being -- Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik -- Action -- Karma, Freedom, and Everyday Life -- Labor, Hunger, and Struggle -- Idea -- Equality and Spirituality -- Equality and Economic Reason -- People -- People as Party -- People as Fiction.
    Abstract: "In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the Global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banerjee identifies four elements of the political: the self, action, ideas, and the people. She examines selfhood in light of precolonial Indic traditions of renunciation and realpolitik; action in the constitutive tension between traditional conceptions of karma and modern ideas of labor; the idea of equality as it emerges in the dialectic between spirituality and economics; and people in the friction between the structure of the political party and the atmospherics of fiction and theater. Throughout, Banerjee reasserts the historical specificity of political thought and challenges modern assumptions about the universality, primacy, and self-evidence of the political. In formulating a new theory of the political, Banerjee gestures toward a globally salient political philosophy that displaces prevailing Western notions of the political masquerading as universal"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-264. Index
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    Jugaad time : ecologies of everyday hacking in India (2019)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9781478001461 , 9781478001102
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 208 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Series Statement: ANIMA: critical race studies otherwise
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rai, Amit S., 1968 - Jugaad time
    DDC: 338/.0640954
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    MS 5000
    Keywords: Technological innovations Social aspects ; Economic development Social aspects ; Digital media Social aspects ; Technology Social aspects ; Technological innovations Social aspects ; India ; Economic development Social aspects ; India ; Digital media Social aspects ; India ; Technology Social aspects ; India ; Indien ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Neue Medien ; Indien ; Computersicherheit ; Hacker
    Abstract: The affect of jugaad : "frugal innovation" and the workaround ecologies of postcolonial practice -- Neoliberal assemblages of perception and digital media in India -- Jugaad ecologies of social reproduction -- Diagramming affect : smart cities and plasticity in India's informal economy
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite175-201 , Includes bibliographical references and index , The affect of jugaad : "frugal innovation" and the workaround ecologies of postcolonial practice , Neoliberal assemblages of perception and digital media in India , Jugaad ecologies of social reproduction , Diagramming affect : smart cities and plasticity in India's informal economy
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    Asia rising : growth and resilience in an uncertain global economy (2013)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781781007983
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 424 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Asia rising
    DDC: 330.95
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum ; Entwicklung ; Infrastruktur ; Investition ; Finanzmarkt ; Asien ; Malaysia ; Indonesien ; Indien ; China ; Thailand ; Philippinen ; International finance ; Electronic books ; Asia Economic conditions 21st century ; Asia ; Economic conditions ; 21st century
    Abstract: pt. 1. Overview -- pt. 2. Asian development challenges -- pt. 3. Country studies.
    Abstract: The centre of global economic activity is shifting rapidly towards Asia, driven by a combination of the economic dynamism of China, India and other middle-income Asian countries, and sluggish growth in the OECD economies. The rapid growth and rising global prominence has raised a range of major challenges for Asia and for the rest of the world. This comprehensive, forward-looking book examines these issues through in-depth studies of major Asian economies and an analysis of the key development policy options
    DOI: 10.4337/9781781007983
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    International aid and private schools for the poor : smiles, miracles and markets (2013)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781781953457
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 186 pages) , illustrations, diagrams
    Series Statement: New thinking in political economy
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Series Statement: New thinking in political economy series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dixon, Pauline International aid and private schools for the poor
    DDC: 371.8269420954
    Keywords: Privatschule ; Bildungsfinanzierung ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Indien ; Afrika ; Educational equalization ; Poor children Education ; Poor children Education ; Children with social disabilities Education ; Children with social disabilities Education ; Private schools ; Private schools ; Economic assistance ; Economic assistance ; Private schools Finance ; Education Finance ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 'Pauline Dixon has intellectual rigour and an openness to new ideas, together with compassion and practicality. A great and unusual combination which I admire enormously'. (Dame Sally Morgan, Adviser to the Board, Absolute Return for Kids and former chief advisor to Tony Blair, UK). -- 'This fine book has a powerful message for policymakers and donors: the quality of schools matters even in poor countries; hence, the poor are abandoning failed state schools and enrolling their kids in low cost private schools. Instead of trying to close them down, the state and donors would do well to invest in children (through vouchers and cash transfers) and give parents a choice rather than create more atrocious, monopolistic state schools where teachers are absent and unaccountable.' (Gurcharan Das, commentator and author, India Unbound and former CEO of Proctor and Gamble, Asia). -- 'This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the plight of poor children, particularly for those readers concerned with learning about culturally sensitive and proven ways to reach out and help less fortunate children in developing countries. I was fascinated and outraged by the compelling stories and actual data that Dixon shares in this gem of an exposé. Most readers will similarly be shaken and incensed by the failure of billions of dollars spent on state schooling in Africa and India. Dixon makes a compelling case for the value and contributions of low cost private schools in slums and low income areas in developing countries. After reading this book, I am now a believer!' (Steven I. Pfeiffer, Professor, Florida State University, US). -- This fascinating volume challenges the widely held belief that the state should supply, finance and regulate schooling in developing countries. Using India as an example, Dr. Pauline Dixon examines the ways in which private, for-profit schools might serve as a successful alternative to state-run systems of education in impoverished communities around the world.
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    Economic development in China, India and East Asia : managing change in the twenty first century (2012)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781781009093
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 307 pages) , diagrams
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Roy, Kartik C., 1941 - Economic development in China, India and East Asia
    DDC: 338.90095
    Keywords: Entwicklung ; Entwicklungspolitik ; China ; Indien ; Ostasien ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Electronic books ; Asia Economic conditions ; East Asia Economic conditions ; South Asia Economic conditions ; China Economic conditions ; India Economic conditions ; South Asia Economic conditions ; China Economic conditions ; India Economic conditions ; East Asia Economic conditions ; Asia Economic conditions
    Abstract: Before embarking on analyses of different aspects of economic growth and development of these countries, the authors present a thought-provoking analysis of how institutional factors such as geography, history of religion, culture and political governance have been deeply interwoven with development dynamics to shape the growth and development trajectory that each country has subsequently followed. Each country’s development path consequently appeared almost be pre-determined. Japan’s role as the lead-country in technology transfer under the flying-geese pattern of development is discussed, however the emphasis has shifted of late to China, India, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. The authors also propose that instead of discussing the failure of India to catch up with China in growth and development outcomes, economists should be commenting on whether China, bestowed with India’s highly decentralized democratic governance structure and institutional rigidities, would have been able to achieve the same results as that of India. Only then will a true understanding and appreciation of India’s achievements in economic growth and development emerge. -- Economic Development in China, India and East Asia will be warmly welcomed and appreciated by academics and researchers of international and development economics as well as Asian development and economics. Policy makers and those involved in NGOs in the development and aid arenas will also find this of great interest. -- ‘This is an unusually rich and comprehensive comparative analysis of industrialisation and development in Asia. Drawing on the diverse experiences of Malaysia, Singapore, China, India and more, Roy, Blomqvist and Clark skilfully tease out the common institutional threads and the subtle differences in their developmental trajectories. An essential reading for all those interested in the lessons from Asian development.’ (Jude Howell, London School of Economics, UK).
    Abstract: This title presents a novel and timely contribution to the literature on economic development in Asia. By placing up-to-date analyses of the Chinese and Indian experiences alongside more established views of the tiger economies, we see a much more complex yet insightful examination of the processes of economic growth and development
    DOI: 10.4337/9781781009093
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    The Asian tsunami : aid and reconstruction after a disaster (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849806831
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 272 pages) , diagrams, maps
    Series Statement: ADBI series on Asian economic integration and cooperation
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jayasuriya, Sisira K., 1946 - The Asian tsunami
    DDC: 363.34948095
    Keywords: Überschwemmung ; Katastrophenschaden ; Internationale Finanzhilfe ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Indonesien ; Indien ; Thailand ; Indischer Ozean ; Asien ; Tsunami damage ; Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 ; Humanitarian assistance ; Tsunami relief ; Asien ; Indischer Ozean ; Tsunami ; Katastrophenhilfe ; Wiederaufbau ; Electronic books ; Tsunami relief--Asia. ; Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004. ; Tsunami relief ; Asia ; Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 ; Asien ; Indischer Ozean ; Tsunami ; Katastrophenhilfe ; Wirtschaftshilfe
    Abstract: The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230 000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort was one of the largest humanitarian programs ever organized in the developing world. This book discusses the lessons of the aid effort for disaster protection policy in developing countries. -- How effective was the aid? What lessons can be learnt about how to respond when disasters strike in poor countries? This insightful book addresses these questions drawing on three themes of current development policy: international aid policy; human security and the poor; and approaches to disaster risk reduction. The most important lesson is the need to ‘go local’ in building up resilience at the grassroots level in poor countries in Asia. Other lessons include the need for better cooperation between the international community and local and national organizations as well as the need to ensure that adequate funding is provided to support disaster protection and post-disaster recovery programs while taking into account cost inflation associated with large-scale reconstruction efforts.
    Note: A joint publication of the Asian Development Bank Institute and Edward Elgar Publishing
    DOI: 10.4337/9781849806831
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    Emerging economies and the transformation of international business : Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) (2006)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781847202987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 549 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in international business
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Emerging economies and the transformation of international business
    DDC: 338.8/8
    RVK:
    QG 480
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    QP 305
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    QG 860
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    QG 830
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    QG 630
    Keywords: Wirtschaftslage ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Strategisches Management ; Internationale Wirtschaft ; Deregulierung ; Corporate Governance ; Auslandsinvestition ; Korruption ; Brasilien ; China ; Indien ; Russland ; International trade ; Strategic planning Case studies ; Brasilien ; China ; Indien ; Russland ; Außenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Brasilien ; China ; Indien ; Russland ; Außenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: The economic power of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) is rapidly increasing, changing the landscape of global economics and politics. Top scholars of international business address in this vital volume the markets, strategy implications, challenges and possibilities of this new economic reality. As these four nations acquire greater economic clout, the opportunities for other countries increase. The contributors describe the favorable circumstances these evolving economies could provide for the US and other countries, such as expanded markets and services, higher returns on investments, and new partners in building a more peaceful and prosperous world. In contrast, they also discuss risks to traditional industries and possible challenges to positions on human rights and intellectual property protections, environmental standards, free markets and democratic governments. The volume emphasizes the need for companies to adopt strategies to stay ahead in the changing business environment. Governments must also design and implement new policies geared toward mutually beneficial relationships with BRICs
    Abstract: pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Market opportunity -- pt. 3. Strategic direction -- pt. 4. Entry alternatives -- pt. 5. Challenges and obstacles -- pt. 6. Conclusion
    Note: "A UCONN CIBER supported research initiative , Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781847202987
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    Economic reform in China and India : development experience in a comparative perspective (2006)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781845429874
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 295 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chai, Joseph C. H., 1939 - Economic reform in China and India
    DDC: 338.951
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsreform ; Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Vergleich ; China ; Indien ; Economic development ; Electronic books ; India Economic conditions 1947- ; China Economic conditions 2000- ; China ; Indien ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Geschichte 1950-2005 ; Indien ; China ; Wirtschaftsreform
    Abstract: Recent acceleration of the Indian economic growth rate from 6 to 8 per cent has sparked worldwide speculation that India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examines this prospect, reviewing the development strategies pursued by the two countries over the last 50 years in general and exploring recently introduced reform measures in particular
    Abstract: 1. Initial conditions and alternative paths to economic development -- 2. The economic system and its reform -- 3. Agricultural development -- 4. Industrial policy -- 5. Foreign trade and investment -- 6. Saving and investment -- 7. Population and employment -- 8. Growth and human development -- 9. Women's empowerment -- 10. Environment in planned development -- 11. Democratization -- 12. Conclusion and the prospects
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781845429874
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    Environmentality : technologies of government and the making of subjects (2005)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9780822334927 , 0822334801 , 0822334925
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 325 S. , Ill., graph. Darst. , 24 cm
    Series Statement: New ecologies for the twenty-first century
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Agrawal, Arun, 1962 - Environmentality
    DDC: 333.72
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    RR 39915
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    AR 28100
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    AR 13965
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    LC 51385
    Keywords: Environmental policy Decision making ; Environmental management Decision making ; Environmental policy India ; Environmental management India ; Forest conservation Kumaun Himalaya ; Umweltplanung ; Indien ; Umweltschutz ; Kumaon-Himalaja ; Wald
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025374.html
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    Information communication technology and economic development : learning from the Indian experience (2005)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781845428259
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 235 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Information communication technology and economic development
    DDC: 338.4/7004/0954
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    QG 830
    Keywords: 1947-2003 ; Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Informationstechnik ; Innovation ; Innovationsdiffusion ; Softwareindustrie ; Indien ; IKT-Sektor ; Telecommunication ; Diffusion of innovations ; Information services industry ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; India Economic conditions 1947- ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indien ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Information Communication Technology and Economic Development reveals new insights regarding the complex process of globalization. It shows how the generation and circulation of intellectual capital in the US and India in ICT have led to greater productivity in the US while facilitating the economic development of India. Most industrialized nations now see the vast intellectual capital-based services that India provides at extremely competitive rates as key to their own national competitiveness in the global arena. The contributors' findings suggest that India's ICT-led growth will accelerate in the next ten years, launching India as a major global economic power next to the US and China
    Abstract: pt. 1. Information communication technology and economic development of India -- pt. 2. Knowledge spillovers and onnovation in the ICT sector -- pt. 3. Industry issues and patterns
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781845428259
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    Poverty targeting in Asia (2005)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781845424701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 282 p) , ill., maps
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Poverty targeting in Asia
    DDC: 339.4/6/095
    RVK:
    QG 020
    RVK:
    QG 800
    Keywords: Armutsbekämpfung ; Indien ; Indonesien ; China ; Thailand ; Philippinen ; Mikrofinanzierung ; Microfinance Congresses ; Poverty Congresses ; Poverty Congresses ; Microfinance Congresses ; Electronic books ; Pacific Area Congresses Economic conditions 20th century ; Asia Congresses Economic conditions 1945 ; Konferenzschrift ; Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum ; Armut ; Bekämpfung
    Abstract: Following a comprehensive overview by the editor, this book offers a detailed assessment of the results of directly channelling resources to the poor and extensively discusses the experience of five Asian countries--India, Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines and Thailand
    Abstract: 1. Experiences with poverty targeting in Asia : an overview / John Weiss -- 2. Poverty targeting in India / Pradeep Srivastava -- 3. Poverty targeting in Indonesia / Ari A. Perdana and John Maxwell -- 4. Poverty targeting in the People's Republic of China / Wang Sangui -- 5. Poverty targeting in Thailand / Peter Warr and Isra Sarntisart -- 6. Poverty targeting in the Philippines / Arsenio Balisacan and Rosemarie Edillon -- 7. Micro-finance and poverty reduction in Asia / John Weiss, Heather Montgomery and Elvira Kurmanalieva
    Note: "A joint publication of the Asian Development Bank Institute and Edward Elgar Publishing , Edited versions of papers presented at an Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) workshop in November 2003 and a conference in December 2003, both held in Tokyo , Five countries selected for study: India, Indonesia, the Peoples Republic of China, the Philippines, and Thailand , Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781845424701
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    Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations (2004)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781845423353
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 225 p) , ill., map
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations
    DDC: 950/.072
    RVK:
    QF 080
    RVK:
    NK 3350
    Keywords: Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Institutioneller Wettbewerb ; Innovation ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Theorie ; Asien ; Competition History ; Technological innovations History ; Electronic books ; Asia Economic policy ; Asia Politics and government ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Indien ; Japan ; Naher Osten ; Politik ; Wettbewerb ; Dezentralisation ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Innovation ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the beneficial effects of inter state competition have been confined to European history. By contrast, China, India and the Islamic Middle East are regarded as inherently imperial and overcentralised. However, these civilisations have not always been unified politically. In their history, there have been long spells of decentralised rule or inter state competition. The same is true for Japan. If the Hume-Kant hypothesis is correct, it should also apply to those periods. This volume analyses the qualitative and quantitative evidence
    Abstract: 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. The political pattern of historical creativity : a theoretical case -- 3. Creative clusters, political fragmentation and cultural heterogeneity : an investigative journey through civilizations East and West -- 4. Lessons from the history of Imperial China -- 5. Advantages of centralized and decentralized rule in Japan -- 6. India -- 7. Islamic statecraft and the Middle East's delayed modernization
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781845423353
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