ABSTRACT
This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology.
The book offers an analysis of the existing ground realities in terms of economic and inclusive development, presenting relevant discussion and findings. It discusses lower castes, tribes, religious/ethnic minorities, and other socially vulnerable people, as well as gender, rural–urban, and educational disparities in South Asia, and highlights that all these issues are interrelated. Structured in two parts—Spatial Dimensions, Labour, and Migration, and Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion—the chapters present emerging new concepts related to socio-economic and inclusive development and use effective and valid methods and methodology covering the ground realities-based information and secondary data-based analysis. Evaluating the extent to which inclusive development has been realised in South Asia, the contributors explore a new approach towards the concept of ‘inclusiveness’ by drawing on the experiences of the diverse societies in South Asia.
An immensely useful contribution to the analysis of different economic and social issues in different countries in South Asia, focusing on inclusivity, this book will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Politics and Development Economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|167 pages
Spatial Dimensions, Labour, and Migration
chapter 1|20 pages
Three Spatial Layers of the Indian Economy
chapter 4|23 pages
Education System and Economic Development in Rural Bangladesh
chapter 5|30 pages
Mobility Between Formal and Informal Sectors and Inclusiveness
chapter 7|22 pages
International Migration from India and the GCM
part 2|154 pages
Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion