Inclusiveness in india/ Hirashima,Shigemochi [ed.]

Introduction; Inclusiveness in India - A Challenging
Strategy for Growth and Equality
Shi^enioclii Hiraslihua, Hisaya Oda and Yuko Tsujita
Recent economic performance: background to the
inclusive growth'strategy
What does the government mean by 'inclusive growth'?
India's past development strategies
Challenges in current inclusive growth strategies
Structure of volume and major findings
Concluding remarks
PART I GROWTH-POVERTY LINKAGE AND
INCOME-ASSET RELATIONSHIP IN THE
INCLUSIVE GROWTH STRATEGY
1 Infrastructure, Economic Growth and Interstate
Disparity in India
Hisaya Oda
Introduction
Descriptive analysis of growing income
disparities across Indian states
Infrastructure and economic growth
Empirical analysis
Constraints for the provision of Infrastructure:
the case of Bihar
Findings and conclusion
2 Changes in Land Distribution and Non-agricultural
Growth in India
Shigemochi Hirashiina and Kensuke Kiibo
Introduction
Changes in the distribution of land and assets
in the 1980s and 1990s
Methodology and data
Results
Interpretation of results
Conclusion
3 Financial Inclusion and Poverty Alleviation in India:
An Empirical Analysis Using State-wise Data
Takeshi Inoiie
Introduction
A history of financial inclusion in India
Financial inclusion and poverty conditions
Selected literature review
Model and data
Empirical results
Some concluding remarks
PART II DISPARITY IN ACCESS TO SOCIAL SERVICES
4 Health Inequality in India: Results from NSS data
Seiru Ito
Introduction
Data
Estimates by expenditure quintiles
Concluding remarks
Appendix: NSS data
5 The Implications of Migration and Schooling for Urban
Educational Disparity: A Study of Delhi Slum Children
Yiiko Tsujita
Introduction
Data collection and profile of children
School attendance and type
Out-of-school children
School costs
Migration and school attendance
Results and discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
PART III ISSUES OF WEAKER SECTIONS IN THE
INCLUSIVE GROWTH STRATEGY
6 Electric Light and Minorities: The Provision of
Semi-public Goods to Weaker Sections in India
Norio Kondo
Introduction
Muslims and social infrastructure
Theoretical background and data
Results and analysis
Concluding remarks
7 Challenges for Inclusive Sustained Employment:
An Attempt to Organize Female Embroidery
Homeworkers in Delhi
Mayiimi Murayama
Introduction
Theorizing homeworkers
Overview of homeworkers in India
Interventions by SEWA Delhi in organizing
embroidery homeworkers
Survey findings
Conclusion
PART IV PERSPECTIVES FOR OVERCOMING
UNDERDEVELOPMENT: A CASE-STUDY OF BIHAR
8 Historical Origins of Underdevelopment and a Captured
Democracy: An Analytical Narrative of Bihar
Kaziiki Minato
Introduction
The political economy of underdevelopment in Bihar
The burden of historical legacies
Much ado about nothing: the protection of
bataidari rights
Divide et impera: welfare schemes for the
underprivileged
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Interstate Disparity in India and Development
Strategies for Backward States
Prabhat P. Ghosh
Introduction
Trends in regional disparity
Development strategy, asymmetric federalism and
regional disparities
Growth of the Bihar economy
Towards an alternative development strategy
Conclusion