Ashwani Saith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 144105 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ashwani Saith |
| PRENOMES | Ashwani |
| SOBRENOME | Saith |
| ASSINATURA | SAITH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Netherlands Institute for Social Research |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Cambridge Journal of Economics – A Forum of One’s Own
This article explores the emergence of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, highlighting its strengths but also some tensions discernible at its advent. From 1912, Economic Journal, the disciplinary gold standard, was published under Cambridge editorial control: first, by Keynes himself, then through successive long-serving panels of Cambridge heterodox economists. The first significant success of the locally enacted, externally inspired, neoclass…
Ajit Singh (1940-2015), the Radical Cambridge Economist
‘An iconoclastic economist’, said the obituary writer in The Times (2015); ‘radical, groundbreaking’, said fellow Cambridge economists Andy Cosh and Alan Hughes in The Independent (Cosh and Hughes, 2015); ‘the passing of a great mind’, said Rajah Rasiah (2015) from Malaysia; ‘a formidable economist’, said Prabhat Patnaik, the eminent Indian Marxist economist (Patnaik, 2015); and they were all right. But powerful as his oeuvre is within economics,…
Universal Basic Income in India? A Conversation without the Mahatma
A Defiant Sociologist and His Craft
Distinguished with a bagful of national and professional honours,1 Jan Breman occupies a preeminent position in the top echelon of academe; but he was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. ‘I happened to grow up in a milieu bothered by material deprivation and as a young boy, I came to know what it meant to belong to a social class having to cope with indigence’ (Breman, 2010a: 79). Each morning, his parents carried a bucket dow…
Inequality, Imbalance, Instability
Globalization has been accompanied by worsening inequality within core countries of global accumulation processes, as exemplified by China and the USA, where income and wealth inequalities have regained the stratospheric heights of the 1920s. In parallel, there are significantly diverging life chances for the rich and the poor. Extreme inequalities are deemed intrinsically toxic due to their potential for the subversion of regulatory and accounta…
Towards Conceptualizing Child Wellbeing in India
Globally, there is a vast array of social indicators, many of these specifically oriented to the lives, experience and needs of children. This approach is much more advanced in developed economies and rich countries, where the focus has widened and shifted progressively towards a full recognition of the non-monetary dimensions of child wellbeing. At present, there would appear to be a propitious academic, activist and policy conjuncture for the w…
Towards Universalizing Socio-economic Security
Constructing Socio-Economic Security for All
Joan Robinson and Indian Planning
China and India
At the start of the so-called development race sixty years ago, China, showcasing revolutionary socialism, and India, boasting parliamentary democracy, had close similarities in economic structures and levels of development, but striking differences in terms of cultural cohesion, institutional flexibility and political orientation. The outcome of the race is unambiguous: the question is not who won, but why and how? It is argued here that a wide …
Downsizing and Distortion of Poverty in India
From Universal Values to Millennium Development Goals
Are the Millennium Development Goals just a string of global wish lists? Are they simply a distraction or gimmick? This contribution argues that there is more to the enveloping global exercise of the MDGs than meets the eye. Despite its alarming and terminal weaknesses with regard to theory, method and scope, and notwithstanding its multitude of errors of commission and omission, the MDG phenomenon carries the potential for distorting meaningful …
Louis Emmerij
Sanjaya Lall
Word and Reed as Sword and Shield
From Village Artisans to Industrial Clusters
This paper offers a broad strategic assessment of the experience of rural industrialization in India. It does so from a policy perspective with the aim eventually of highlighting speci?c outstanding policy issues. Rural and small-scale industrialization (RSSI) has held a special place in Indian development thinking and policy formulation from the outset. This privileged position, however, does not derive from a universal consensus with regard to …
Forest Lives and Struggles
Migration Processes and Policies
This article argues that perspectives of migration as a matter of individual choice or structural coercion are limited in explaining Asian experiences in internal and international migration. Migration experiences in Asia range from early coerced and state-mediated migrations to migrations that are mostly demand-determined. A few exceptional cases, such as that of Malaysia, Indonesia's transmigration programs, and enforced migration on account of…
From collectives to markets
The article attempts to put together micro-evidence for constructing an initial sketch of the emergent structure of linkages between agriculture and rural industry. It focuses mainly on three aspects : (i) the transfer of land from peasants to industrial and other enterprises, (ii) mechanisms and practices for absorbing peasant labour into the rural non-farm sector, especially in the form of wage labour, and (iii) the forms and relative dimension…
Absorbing External Shocks
The paper analyses the impact of the Gulf crisis on the Indian economy as a whole, on the state of Kerala which was the origin of the majority of the Indian migrants in Kuwait and Iraq, and on the returning migrants them- selves. The scale of the disturbances is estimated both with respect to the labour market, as well as the flow of remittances. Alternative policy responses are discussed, especially in the context of the Kerala economy, and the …
Primitive Accumulation, Agrarian Reform and Socialist Transitions
This essay constructs a preliminary argument concerning the position of the peasantry in the twin transitions: the first, to industrialisation, and the second, towards socialism. Within orthodox Marxian theory, the two transitions are also sequential; with the socialist order emerging from the crisis, breakdown and overthrow of the capitalist system which in its maturity becomes a fetter upon further development, and ‘begets with the inexorabilit…
Development strategies and the rural poor
Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful industrialisation
Primitive accumulation, agrarian reform and socialist transitions
This essay constructs a preliminary argument concerning the position of the peasantry in the twin transitions: the first to industrialisation, and the second, towards socialism. In the poor developing country launching upon both simultaneously, the agrarian question bifurcates into two dichotomous sets of issues. The first concerns the instrumentality of the agricultural sector in assisting industrialisation through the provision of investible re…
The distributional dimensions of revolutionary transition
This study attempts to investigate some of the distributional costs that have attended upon the process of revolutionary transition in Ethiopia, focusing on the crucial role of the rural sector in this regard. The central variable through which this sector influenced national economic performance was the marketed proportion of output. The study deals with this linkage and with the macroeconomic distributional outcomes of the growth process for th…
China's New Population Policies
From Universal Values to Millennium Development Goals
Are the Millennium Development Goals just a string of global wish lists? Are they simply a distraction or gimmick? This contribution argues that there is more to the enveloping global exercise of the MDGs than meets the eye. Despite its alarming and terminal weaknesses with regard to theory, method and scope, and notwithstanding its multitude of errors of commission and omission, the MDG phenomenon carries the potential for distorting meaningful …
Development and distribution
China and India
At the start of the so-called development race sixty years ago, China, showcasing revolutionary socialism, and India, boasting parliamentary democracy, had close similarities in economic structures and levels of development, but striking differences in terms of cultural cohesion, institutional flexibility and political orientation. The outcome of the race is unambiguous: the question is not who won, but why and how? It is argued here that a wide …
From collectives to markets
The article attempts to put together micro-evidence for constructing an initial sketch of the emergent structure of linkages between agriculture and rural industry. It focuses mainly on three aspects : (i) the transfer of land from peasants to industrial and other enterprises, (ii) mechanisms and practices for absorbing peasant labour into the rural non-farm sector, especially in the form of wage labour, and (iii) the forms and relative dimension…
Development strategies and the rural poor
Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful industrialisation
Indebtedness, tenancy and the adoption of new technology in semi-feudal agriculture
Towards Conceptualizing Child Wellbeing in India
Globally, there is a vast array of social indicators, many of these specifically oriented to the lives, experience and needs of children. This approach is much more advanced in developed economies and rich countries, where the focus has widened and shifted progressively towards a full recognition of the non-monetary dimensions of child wellbeing. At present, there would appear to be a propitious academic, activist and policy conjuncture for the w…
Absorbing External Shocks
The paper analyses the impact of the Gulf crisis on the Indian economy as a whole, on the state of Kerala which was the origin of the majority of the Indian migrants in Kuwait and Iraq, and on the returning migrants them- selves. The scale of the disturbances is estimated both with respect to the labour market, as well as the flow of remittances. Alternative policy responses are discussed, especially in the context of the Kerala economy, and the …
Inequality, Imbalance, Instability
Globalization has been accompanied by worsening inequality within core countries of global accumulation processes, as exemplified by China and the USA, where income and wealth inequalities have regained the stratospheric heights of the 1920s. In parallel, there are significantly diverging life chances for the rich and the poor. Extreme inequalities are deemed intrinsically toxic due to their potential for the subversion of regulatory and accounta…
From Village Artisans to Industrial Clusters
This paper offers a broad strategic assessment of the experience of rural industrialization in India. It does so from a policy perspective with the aim eventually of highlighting speci?c outstanding policy issues. Rural and small-scale industrialization (RSSI) has held a special place in Indian development thinking and policy formulation from the outset. This privileged position, however, does not derive from a universal consensus with regard to …
Louis Emmerij
China's New Population Policies
Indebtedness, tenancy and the adoption of new technology in semi-feudal agriculture
Production, prices and poverty in rural India
This paper challenges the view that increases in agricultural production have reduced poverty in rural India. Rural poverty is related directly to the consumer price index number for agricultural labourers, and inversely to agricultural production. The underlying time trend term indicates a residual rising trend in rural poverty after accounting for the influence of these two factors. There are plausible, though conjectural, reasons for believing…
Growth and Equality in Rural China
Development and distribution
China's New Population Policies
Primitive accumulation, agrarian reform and socialist transitions
This essay constructs a preliminary argument concerning the position of the peasantry in the twin transitions: the first to industrialisation, and the second, towards socialism. In the poor developing country launching upon both simultaneously, the agrarian question bifurcates into two dichotomous sets of issues. The first concerns the instrumentality of the agricultural sector in assisting industrialisation through the provision of investible re…
The distributional dimensions of revolutionary transition
This study attempts to investigate some of the distributional costs that have attended upon the process of revolutionary transition in Ethiopia, focusing on the crucial role of the rural sector in this regard. The central variable through which this sector influenced national economic performance was the marketed proportion of output. The study deals with this linkage and with the macroeconomic distributional outcomes of the growth process for th…
Development strategies and the rural poor
Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful industrialisation
Primitive Accumulation, Agrarian Reform and Socialist Transitions
This essay constructs a preliminary argument concerning the position of the peasantry in the twin transitions: the first, to industrialisation, and the second, towards socialism. Within orthodox Marxian theory, the two transitions are also sequential; with the socialist order emerging from the crisis, breakdown and overthrow of the capitalist system which in its maturity becomes a fetter upon further development, and ‘begets with the inexorabilit…
Absorbing External Shocks
The paper analyses the impact of the Gulf crisis on the Indian economy as a whole, on the state of Kerala which was the origin of the majority of the Indian migrants in Kuwait and Iraq, and on the returning migrants them- selves. The scale of the disturbances is estimated both with respect to the labour market, as well as the flow of remittances. Alternative policy responses are discussed, especially in the context of the Kerala economy, and the …
From collectives to markets
The article attempts to put together micro-evidence for constructing an initial sketch of the emergent structure of linkages between agriculture and rural industry. It focuses mainly on three aspects : (i) the transfer of land from peasants to industrial and other enterprises, (ii) mechanisms and practices for absorbing peasant labour into the rural non-farm sector, especially in the form of wage labour, and (iii) the forms and relative dimension…
Migration Processes and Policies
This article argues that perspectives of migration as a matter of individual choice or structural coercion are limited in explaining Asian experiences in internal and international migration. Migration experiences in Asia range from early coerced and state-mediated migrations to migrations that are mostly demand-determined. A few exceptional cases, such as that of Malaysia, Indonesia's transmigration programs, and enforced migration on account of…
Forest Lives and Struggles
From Village Artisans to Industrial Clusters
This paper offers a broad strategic assessment of the experience of rural industrialization in India. It does so from a policy perspective with the aim eventually of highlighting speci?c outstanding policy issues. Rural and small-scale industrialization (RSSI) has held a special place in Indian development thinking and policy formulation from the outset. This privileged position, however, does not derive from a universal consensus with regard to …
Word and Reed as Sword and Shield
Louis Emmerij
Sanjaya Lall
From Universal Values to Millennium Development Goals
Are the Millennium Development Goals just a string of global wish lists? Are they simply a distraction or gimmick? This contribution argues that there is more to the enveloping global exercise of the MDGs than meets the eye. Despite its alarming and terminal weaknesses with regard to theory, method and scope, and notwithstanding its multitude of errors of commission and omission, the MDG phenomenon carries the potential for distorting meaningful …
Downsizing and Distortion of Poverty in India
Towards Universalizing Socio-economic Security
Constructing Socio-Economic Security for All
Joan Robinson and Indian Planning
China and India
At the start of the so-called development race sixty years ago, China, showcasing revolutionary socialism, and India, boasting parliamentary democracy, had close similarities in economic structures and levels of development, but striking differences in terms of cultural cohesion, institutional flexibility and political orientation. The outcome of the race is unambiguous: the question is not who won, but why and how? It is argued here that a wide …
Towards Conceptualizing Child Wellbeing in India
Globally, there is a vast array of social indicators, many of these specifically oriented to the lives, experience and needs of children. This approach is much more advanced in developed economies and rich countries, where the focus has widened and shifted progressively towards a full recognition of the non-monetary dimensions of child wellbeing. At present, there would appear to be a propitious academic, activist and policy conjuncture for the w…
Inequality, Imbalance, Instability
Globalization has been accompanied by worsening inequality within core countries of global accumulation processes, as exemplified by China and the USA, where income and wealth inequalities have regained the stratospheric heights of the 1920s. In parallel, there are significantly diverging life chances for the rich and the poor. Extreme inequalities are deemed intrinsically toxic due to their potential for the subversion of regulatory and accounta…
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