Interrogating Inclusive Growth: Poverty and Inequality in India [Paperback]

The high growth performance of the Indian economy since the launch of economic reforms in the early 1990s has been much lauded. But how much of this growth has made its way to the poor? In a radical assessment ofinclusive growth this book probes the impact of neo-liberal policies on employment, poverty and inequality. It critiques the claim thaPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Indias Common People: Who are They, How Many are They and How do They Live? 3. More on Indias Common People: A Regional Profile 4. Growth sans Employment: A Quarter Century of Jobless Growth in Indias Organised Manufacturing 5. Dualism, Informality and Social Inequality 6. The Long Road to Social Security 7. How Inclusive is Inclusive Growth in India? 8. Low Participation and High Informalisation: Is this a Virtuous Circle in the Growth Employment Interaction? Notes. Appendix. BibliographyThis volume critiques the much-touted claim that market-friendly economic reform policies in India willtrickle down to the poor and help reduce poverty and deprivation. The author provides an exclusive and empirical perspective in linking employment, poverty and inequality, with regard to the impact of the high-growth performance of the Indian economy since the early 1990s.

K. P. Kannan is Chairman, Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat Studies, Trivandrum, and the Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development (COSTFORD), Thrissur, Kerala.

Kannan's treatise on the informal economy is on the widening gap between the classes higher up and down below. His critical analysis challenges the inclusivity of the growth process unleashed by the neoliberal reform policies.  Jan Breman, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam

The book argues for a strategy of inequality-sensitive well-being of the peolãŠ