Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

Growth and Hunger in India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6287952
AutoresDan Banik (0000-0002-1797-3445, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen22
Número3
Páginas90-104
Fecha de publicación2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2011.0049
OpenAlexW1970885340
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas3

With 37.2 percent of its 1.2 billion citizens officially estimated to be living in poverty, India has the unenviable record of being home to a third of the world's poor. And while the country has averted famines since independence, it has not been as successful at preventing chronic hunger. This article provides a broad overview of Indian democracy's struggle with development and discusses the type of progress democratic India has made over the years in fighting poverty and inequality. Thereafter, it specifically examines undernutrition and starvation deaths in Orissa, one of India's poorest states. It argues that instead of sustained commitment to long-term policies that aim to reduce vulnerability to hunger, the political-administrative response is typically short-term, ad hoc, populist, and clientelistic in character

Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Independence (probability theory · Inequality · Malnutrition · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Vulnerability (computing · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Social and Economic Development in India