Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race. Focusing on historical and modern practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. Examining cash and asset transfers, as well as the enhancement of women’s rights, primary health and education, it scrutinizes inadequacies in compensatory policies for redressing the balance. This is an original interdisciplinary contribution that offers bold domestic and international policies anchored in human radicalism to eradicate poverty.
Despre autor
Parthasarathi Shome is Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.
Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 344 ● ISBN 9781529230390 ● Mărime fișier 3.1 MB ● Editura Bristol University Press ● Oraș Bristol ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2023 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 9047904 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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