TY - BOOK TI - Inclusiveness in india SN - 9780230395053 U1 - 323.4 PY - 2011/// CY - UK PB - Palgrave macmillan N1 - 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 ER -