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Subject(s)

• Minorities—South Asia—Social conditions [Browse]
• People with social disabilities—South Asia [Browse]
• Power (Social sciences)—South Asia [Browse]
• South Asia—Social policy [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 10. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 10 [More in this series]

Summary note

In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the pervasive global failure to achieve the Millennium Development Goals are constant reminders of this crisis. An equally, and even more distressing dimension of human development is its great unevenness. Even in countries with high levels of human development it was noted that gender differences were significant. Levels of educational attainment and incomes remain significantly unequal between social groups, constituted along other categories of difference s

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Permissions; Abbreviations; Introduction: Human development: has the paradigm failed us?; 1 Conceptualizing Human Development: Towards a social power approach; 2 Human Development in India: A profile of unevenness; 3 Explaining Uneven Human Development in India: A social power perspective; 4 Human Development in Pakistan and Bangladesh: A profile; 5 Uneven Human Development in Pakistan and Bangladesh: A social power perspective; 6 Conclusions: Agency, human development and social power; Notes; References; Index

ISBN

• 9780415775521
• 1-135-97323-7
• 0-429-23992-0
• 1-281-45724-8
• 9786611457242
• 0-203-89523-1

OCLC

476163309

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