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Rao, Nitya 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0147
(2010)
Is the new India bypassing women? gendered implications of India's growth.
In:
A New India?
Anthem Press, pp. 99-126.
ISBN 0857286641
Abstract
High rates of growth have characterized developments in the Indian economy over the last few years, with a growth rate of close to 9 per cent for three consecutive years from 2005–6 to 2007–8, surpassing all expectations (Government of India 2007). Whereas GDP growth amounted to less than 4 per cent per year during 1965–74 (in fact since Indian independence in 1947), it has been close to 6 per cent per year since 1985, an increase in the growth rate by one-and-a-half times. Even more significant is the increase in the annual rate of GDP per capita growth from 1.4 per cent during 1965–74 to 4.3 per cent during 1995–2004, a threefold increase, resulting partly from a slowing down of population growth (Rao et al. 2008). This remarkable growth, often claimed as evidence for the success of a pro-market strategy that has led to an expansion of choices and opportunities, is viewed as a key characteristic of the ‘new India’. Yet concerns about the inclusiveness of the growth process remain, pointing to the persistence of an ‘old India’, with not all sectors, states or sections of the population able to equally access these new, market-based opportunities. The interests of urban private capital (big business) and rural social elites (often newly emergent caste-based groups) continue to be met at the cost of providing education, health or extension services to the poor, confronted with both rising prices and exclusion from the new regime of accumulation (Corbridge and Harriss 2000; Kohli 2006; Bardhan 1998).
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | arts and humanities(all),sdg 11 - sustainable cities and communities ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Health and Disease Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2022 18:30 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 08:21 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/86655 |
| DOI: | 10.7135/UPO9780857286529.007 |
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