Growth and Equity: A Critique of the Lewis-Kuznets Tradition with Special Reference to IndiaGrowth and Equity focuses on some persistent problems facing developing countries: the narrowness of the domestic market, the disproportionality between sectors, premature migration, and the persistence of dualism--problems with which the Lewis-Kuznets approach has failed to adequately address. Datta considers the feasibility of an alternative to "development from below," supporting his argument with district-level data from India. |
Contents
SOME SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE LEWISTYPE | 20 |
DEMAND DEFICIENCY IN THE INDIAN | 31 |
THE DESIDERATUM OF GROWTH IN | 37 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Agrarian agri Agricultural Productivity agricultural sector American Economic Review Annual Number Bagchi Bardhan big farmers Bihar capital capitalist Chakravarty coefficient confidence level crops Delhi demand Development Economics Economic and Political Economic Development Equation 1-S Equation 2-0 farm Fei and Ranis fertilizer Gini index GLTI Green Revolution Haryana hectare hence home market ibid Income Distribution increase India Indian Agriculture Indian economy industrial sector inequality inputs Inter-Sectoral interaction terms inverted U hypothesis investment irrigation Ishikawa Jawaharlal Nehru University Journal of Development Karnataka Ladejinsky land Lewis model Lewis-type model mean value ment Mundle Name of District paper Parenthesis peasant Political Weekly population poverty poverty line Punjab reduction reforms region rural sector Sharecropping small farmers social Surplus Labour Taiwan Tamil Nadu terms of trade TFG or GLTF Thorner tion total output total surplus urban Uttar Pradesh value of G variable wage West Bengal Zamindar