Organising Poor Women: The Andhra Pradesh Experience - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8171889387 ISBN 13: 9788171889389

Publisher: Academic Foundation, 2013

Synopsis

With quantitative and policy analyses, this record examines the organizations benefiting the poorer classes in Andhra Pradesh, an Indian state that has been at the forefront in the effort to empower poor women. Arguing that without power the poor, and poor women in particular, will not be able to force the introduction of policies and interventions to improve their well-being, this volume reflects on the working and functioning of membership based organizations of the poor. Policymakers, economists, social activists, and journalists alike will profit from this book.

About this title

From the Author:

S. Mahendra Dev is the director of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai, India, and a former consultant and advisor to the United Nations Development Program and World Bank. He is the author of more than 100 research publications in national and international journals, including Inclusive Growth in India: Agriculture, Poverty and Human Development. Ravi Kanbur is the T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, the international professor of applied economics and management, and an economics professor at Cornell University. He has published in leading economics journals, including American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economic Studies. He lives in Ithaca, New York. S. Galab is a professor at the Center for Economic and Social Studies in Hyderabad, India. He is a former member of the Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in Andhra Pradesh, of the Departmental Committee of the Center for Regional Studies, and the Working Group on Poverty Elimination Programs. G. Alivelu is an assistant professor at the Center for Economic and Social Studies in Hyderabad, India. She is a contributor to the Human Development Report of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of a working group for the Twelfth Five Year Plan for the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Foundation
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8171889387
• ISBN 13: 9788171889389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 299
• Editor: Dev S. Mahendra, Kanbur Ravi, Galab S., Alivelu G.