Barbara Harriss-White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Harriss-White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Harriss-White |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISS-WHITE B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
West Bengal's Rural Commercial Capital
This paper aims to understand the achievement of high agricultural growth alongside persistent poverty and a mediocre record of human development in West Bengal under the democratically elected Left Front over the last 30 years. Contrary to conventional explanations which centre on the nature of land distribution and rental arrangements, it seeks to explain the contrast between the expansion of agriculture and the deprivation of its mainly rural …
Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India
This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the South Indian city of Chennai from November 2008 to May 2009. It examines the effects of a concatenation of events scaled from the global to the local, consisting of economic shocks (speculation in financial, fuel and food markets) and extremes of rainfall and temperature, on a cross-section of the urban poor …
Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice
Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India
This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the South Indian city of Chennai from November 2008 to May 2009. It examines the effects of a concatenation of events scaled from the global to the local, consisting of economic shocks (speculation in financial, fuel and food markets) and extremes of rainfall and temperature, on a cross-section of the urban poor …
West Bengal's Rural Commercial Capital
This paper aims to understand the achievement of high agricultural growth alongside persistent poverty and a mediocre record of human development in West Bengal under the democratically elected Left Front over the last 30 years. Contrary to conventional explanations which centre on the nature of land distribution and rental arrangements, it seeks to explain the contrast between the expansion of agriculture and the deprivation of its mainly rural …
Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice
West Bengal's Rural Commercial Capital
This paper aims to understand the achievement of high agricultural growth alongside persistent poverty and a mediocre record of human development in West Bengal under the democratically elected Left Front over the last 30 years. Contrary to conventional explanations which centre on the nature of land distribution and rental arrangements, it seeks to explain the contrast between the expansion of agriculture and the deprivation of its mainly rural …
Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India
This research uses a fresh perspective to trace the impact of multiple economic, financial and environmental shocks on slum-dwellers in the South Indian city of Chennai from November 2008 to May 2009. It examines the effects of a concatenation of events scaled from the global to the local, consisting of economic shocks (speculation in financial, fuel and food markets) and extremes of rainfall and temperature, on a cross-section of the urban poor …
Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agrarian society (1 work) · Agriculture (1 work) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 work) · Demography (1 work)