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Chapter in a Book
The Political Economy of Reform: A Comparison of Institutional Mechanisms Introduced by the UPA and NDA Governments
in Springer Nature
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Abstract
The author is interested in examining the process of introduction of reforms to explain why the same set of reforms failed to translate into growth in the 1990s in India but have had successful impacts on the economy in later political regimes. In particular, he wants to frame the process of introducing reforms within the socio-political context in India which brings unique challenges and political constraints. This book chapter intends to assess how political capacity and institutional mechanisms are key to understanding why reforms have failed in certain contexts.
Article
Agrarian Change and Accumulation in Central India: Revisiting the Agrarian Question of Capital
in Journal of Agrarian Change
Article
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Abstract
In this paper, the researchers revisit the relevance of the agrarian question of capital and provide evidence of the dynamism in agriculture based on an empirical enquiry. They study the possibilities, channels and patterns of agrarian accumulation and its spillover on the nonagrarian accumulation dynamics in an agriculturally advanced region lying in central India. Based on this empirical study, they posit that the agrarian question of capital remains important at a regional scale in India. By bringing the focus back on the question of capital, the paper maps the contemporary agrarian change processes as being linked to the process of generation of agrarian surplus and contributes to the debate on the relevance of the agrarian question of capital in the Global South.
Authors: Sunit Arora, Deepak K Mishra
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