Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades
Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern
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9780198838067
Publication date:
01/10/2018
Paperback
668 pages
Price: 695.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198838067
Publication date:
01/10/2018
Paperback
668 pages
Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern
Rights: OUP UK (Indian Territory)
Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern
Description
This book provides an account of economic development in Palanpur, a village in rural North India, based on five detailed surveys of the village over the period 1957 to 1993. These five decades have seen economic well-being rise in some important respects, but stagnation and even decline in other areas. The analysis presented here focuses on the reasons behind this uneven progress. The authors tie in the background issues of the evolution of poverty and inequality and mobility over time with causal factors such as technological progress, demographic and sectoral changes, the operation of markets, and the role of public action. The richness and unique nature of the qualitative and quantitative data collected and presented by Lanjouw and Stern yields an analysis which illuminates questions of direct importance to researchers in a wide variety of disciplines.
About the Author
Dr Peter Lanjouw is the former Research Manager of the Poverty and Inequality Group in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He first joined the Bank in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on poverty measurement methods and rural-urban economic transformation. He is a past editorial board member of the World Bank Economic Review and of the Journal of African Economies. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Amsterdam Institute of International Development.
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is IG Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is Director of the India Observatory, Chairman of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chairman of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and President-elect of the Royal Economic Society (2018-2019). He has also been a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords since 2007.
Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern
Table of contents
I: The Village
1: Palanpur: Population, Society, Economy
2: Economic Development in Palanpur, 1957-93
II: The Economics of Change
3: Population Growth, Employment Expansion, and Technological Change
4: Poverty in Palanpur
5: Inequality
6: Nutrition
7: Labour
8: Tenancy
9: Credit
References
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern
Features
- This is a paperback edition of the 1998 volume that was the second in a now trilogy of works charting the lives and economic development of this village over seven decades
- Palanpur has become an established part of the discourse on development in India and on development economics as a whole
- Extensive detailed fieldwork
- Solid theoretical framework from two prominent and distinguished economists
Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern
Description
This book provides an account of economic development in Palanpur, a village in rural North India, based on five detailed surveys of the village over the period 1957 to 1993. These five decades have seen economic well-being rise in some important respects, but stagnation and even decline in other areas. The analysis presented here focuses on the reasons behind this uneven progress. The authors tie in the background issues of the evolution of poverty and inequality and mobility over time with causal factors such as technological progress, demographic and sectoral changes, the operation of markets, and the role of public action. The richness and unique nature of the qualitative and quantitative data collected and presented by Lanjouw and Stern yields an analysis which illuminates questions of direct importance to researchers in a wide variety of disciplines.
About the Author
Dr Peter Lanjouw is the former Research Manager of the Poverty and Inequality Group in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He first joined the Bank in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on poverty measurement methods and rural-urban economic transformation. He is a past editorial board member of the World Bank Economic Review and of the Journal of African Economies. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Amsterdam Institute of International Development.
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is IG Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is Director of the India Observatory, Chairman of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chairman of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and President-elect of the Royal Economic Society (2018-2019). He has also been a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords since 2007.
Table of contents
I: The Village
1: Palanpur: Population, Society, Economy
2: Economic Development in Palanpur, 1957-93
II: The Economics of Change
3: Population Growth, Employment Expansion, and Technological Change
4: Poverty in Palanpur
5: Inequality
6: Nutrition
7: Labour
8: Tenancy
9: Credit
References
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
