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When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three decades and became the second fastest among large economies. Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world.
Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achievable goal for India. In An Uncertain Glory, two of India's leading economists argue that the country's main problems lie in the lack of attention paid to the essential needs of the people, especially of the poor, and often of women. There have been major failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's living conditions. There is also a continued inadequacy of social services such as schooling and medical care as well as of physical services such as safe water, electricity, drainage, transportation, and sanitation. In the long run, even the feasibility of high economic growth is threatened by the underdevelopment of social and physical infrastructure and the neglect of human capabilities, in contrast with the Asian approach of simultaneous pursuit of economic growth and human development, as pioneered by Japan, South Korea, and China.
In a democratic system, which India has great reason to value, addressing these failures requires not only significant policy rethinking by the government, but also a clearer public understanding of the abysmal extent of social and economic deprivations in the country. The deep inequalities in Indian society tend to constrict public discussion, confining it largely to the lives and concerns of the relatively affluent. Drèze and Sen present a powerful analysis of these deprivations and inequalities as well as the possibility of change through democratic practice.
- Sales Rank: #833772 in Books
- Brand: Princeton University Press
- Published on: 2013-08-11
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.50" w x 1.50" l, 1.67 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 448 pages
Review
One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Edmund Phelps
"It's an urgent, passionate, political work that makes the case that India cannot move forward without investing significantly--as every other major industrialized country has already done--in public services. . . . This book is . . . a heartfelt plea to rethink what progress in a poor country ought to look like."--Jyoti Thottam, New York Times Book Review
"Sen and Drèze carefully explain such issues as health care, education, corruption, lack of accountability, growing inequality, and their suppression in India's elite-dominated public space. . . . Sen and Drèze also reveal how democracy in its simplest manifestation, the scramble for votes, can drive successful implementation of welfare programs such as the Public Distribution System."--Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books
"After three decades of trawling the data compiled by central and state governments, Indian nongovernmental organizations, and international bodies, these longtime collaborators know--possibly better than any other commentators--how Indian governments since the 1980s have failed the vast majority of Indians, especially in health care, education, poverty reduction, and the justice system."--Andrew Robinson, Science
"[A]n excellent but unsettling new book."--The Economist
"[E]legant and restrained prose, and with an array of fresh examples."--Ramachandra Guha, Financial Times
"Sen and Dreze are right to draw attention to the limits of India's success and how much remains to be done. They are exemplary scholars, and everything they say is worth careful study."--Clive Crook, Bloomberg News
"Economists Dreze and Nobel laureate Sen compellingly argue that Indian policy makers have ignored the basic needs of people, especially those of the poor and women."--Choice
"An Uncertain Glory is an excellent, highly readable, and exceptionally meaningful book."--S. Prakash Sethi, Business Ethics Quarterly
From the Back Cover
"India is a great success story of economic growth and poverty decline, but it remains the home of global poverty, and half of its children are profoundly malnourished. This paradox of poverty and plenty poses one of the great intellectual and moral challenges of the day. We can ask for no better guides to it than a philosopher and an activist, both distinguished economists, and both with unparalleled knowledge of India's glories and its shames."--Angus Deaton, author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
"This important book provides a comprehensive and probing analysis of the Indian economy and its enormous potential. What makes this such an engaging book is that it is a deeply sympathetic and, for that very reason, a deeply critical evaluation of contemporary India. The book's combination of economics, politics, history, and law makes it a fascinating read."--Kaushik Basu, chief economist of the World Bank
About the Author
Jean Drèze has lived in India since 1979 and became an Indian citizen in 2002. He has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics, and he is now a visiting professor at Allahabad University. He is the coauthor (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action and India: Development and Participation. Amartya Sen is the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His many books include Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian, Identity and Violence, and The Idea of Justice.
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Necessity of Social Intervention accompanying Economic Growth
By Vibhash Sureka
"An uncertain Glory" is a seriously argued book advocating Social Intervention in the fields of health, education, nutrition, provision of public services like drinking water, sanitation etc. while pursuing policies of economic growth. The argument is supported by a wealth of data in a Statistical Appendix of about 40 pages.
Authors begin with a survey of India's many political and economic achievements and failures. They praise the success of formal democracy and high economic growth while lamenting the poor practice of democracy and slow progress in indicators of human well being which they rightly claim to be inter related.
The book studies India's comparative standing vis-à-vis other Asian, African and South American economies over time and establishes convincingly that despite high economic growth, India has fallen behind these countries by not paying sufficient attention to social intervention in the fields listed above.
The centrality of education and primacy of health care are further supported by success of some Indian states like Kerala, Tamilnadu and Himachal Pradesh which have achieved high level of indicators of human well being without being at the top of economic growth chart.
Authors commend the introduction and success of laws like Right to Information
and NAREGA which have brought about more transparency and accountability in political sphere and raised real wages in rural India respectively.
More importantly, India's multi dimensional inequality based on class, caste, gender and even knowledge of English are discussed and their inter relationship brought to fore.
Authors justifiably criticize the media for not paying enough attention to real issues facing the country and utilizing their resources for mainly airing the views of affluent classes. This causes severe deficiency in public reasoning and participatory development accentuating the existing inequalities.
The greatness of the work lies in its multi dimensional approach, forceful argument and well researched empirical support for the argument. It is more than successful in establishing importance of social intervention as well as a deliberative democracy for achieving greater equality in enjoyment of fruits of growth.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The Need for Impatience
By B.Sudhakar Shenoy
India is acclaimed as the world's largest democracy and the second fastest growing economy, with a huge demographic dividend and the largest middle class. Personally, I too have been a beneficiary of this rapid economic transformation since 1991.
I have always felt proud of such economic success, blindly believing in `the trickle-down effect' and that the welfare measures of the government would take care of poverty alleviation.
This book, a real eye opener, gives a totally different picture, ugly, sad, but true and accurate, of the other side of India - the poor and underprivileged, who are hungry, malnourished, illiterate and sick.
It is shocking to see the huge disparity between the privileged and the rest. Indian media, in all TV channels recently ridiculed the Planning Commission's notion of poverty line (at Rs 32/- or 5 Cents in urban areas, and Rs 26/- or 4 Cents in rural areas) as the daily income. The entire noise and laughter was on how misplaced this calculation was, since Rs 32/- meant next to nothing for survival, leave alone `luxuries' like health care and education.
The authors very rightly point out in this book, that what the entire debate grossly missed was the fact that even at the abysmal threshold of Rs 32/26/- per day, about 350 million or a third of the entire nation would still be classified as poor in the world's largest democracy.
While India can claim economic laurels on Growth rate, it is now the second lowest (thankfully) just above Pakistan in Human Development Index, amongst 16 poorest countries outside Sub-Saharan Africa as pointed out in the book.
The country has failed to harness `constructive role of markets' and simultaneously, and quite miserably in implementing `constructive role of the state'. While the former did nothing to make growth inclusive, the latter is a story of gross ineptitude, corruption and lack of accountability of the public services.
The book discusses the plight of the underprivileged, the women, Dalits and other poorer segments that are largely untouched by economic progress achieved by the privileged classes.
A chapter each on Corruption, Health Care, Education, and Social Support makes this book an exhaustive study on the ground reality of poverty in the world's largest democracy. Lots need to be done to achieve social and economic democracy as well. Democracy is just a political means to achieve social and economic justice for all.
The book discusses direct social benefit schemes like Right to Education, MNREGA, ICDS, RBSY, PDS, Food Security etc., which are bold and brilliant steps, absolutely necessary to mitigate the suffering of the poor, and also to build human capital to accelerate growth.
In my own observation, for every scheme that is announced by the Government, the privileged, due to better education, income, connections, and bargaining power corner the benefits that are actually meant and targeted for the poor. As an example, even the highly educated professionals are quick to obtain `Aadhar Card', only to avail pittance (in comparison with their gross incomes) of a subsidy for cooking gas.
The proverbial `Ration card', (taken `just in case it is needed') and Voter ID (hardly exercised by the affluent) are other examples, of proliferation of cards that adds to the confusion.
In the absence of clear communication on the purpose of these cards and schemes, and the lack of authentic data and machinery to identify the real beneficiaries, benefits meant for the poor never reach them and are siphoned out in part. The poor suffer from `exclusion error'.
The privileged enjoy regressive subsidies, and actually encourage siphoning subsidies by corrupt officials due to `inclusion error'. (For example food grains `accounted as distributed' for those who never collect them, nor would ever use them due to `poor quality'.)
The privileged also hinder inclusive growth while enjoying several regressive subsidies, in the absence of "Self Selection" systems that discourages them. (Noon meal scheme for children in Government run Schools as an example). This is my personal inference from this book.
Corruption is the biggest menace facing India. It thrives due to 1. Complex Government processes, 2. Social tolerance of bribes, and 3. Difficulty in prosecuting corrupt government officials, argue the authors.
Every honourable citizen should muster the courage to say NO to corruption, direct or indirect, whatever the social pressures. Corruption in any form erodes the national fabric, and should be treated on par with `Waging War against Nation' as pointed out recently by some social activists.
The Right to Information Act (2005) is perhaps the greatest step in this direction, to bring transparency in governance. There is a need to extend it to Private Sector and political parties as well.
It should also be noted that States like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh have made rapid strides in Human Development Index along with rise in per capita income, while many other states have miserably failed. Informed will of the people, an efficient bureaucracy and strong political leadership, can make this huge difference.
India has always boasted of its `patience'. Aptly quoted in the final chapter of this book, "Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue": Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil's Dictionary (1906).
India got political freedom from British, only because her patience ran out.
We can no longer be patient.
We need passion for growth, coupled firmly with compassion for the poor.
Supported by appropriate and accurate data, references and a passion for ending poverty, this book is perhaps the best, I have ever read on Indian Economics.
I LOVE INDIA. JAI HIND!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Well worth the read
By Christopher Junker
Mildly repetitive and inevitably somewhat dry, nevertheless well worth the read if you want to understand why India is not the juggernaut that many, especially in the right wing press, have been warning us about. Oddly enough, this book is rather informative about our own country in the sense that we get so see what the US would look like if the Republican/Tea Party was able to fulfill its plan of unfettered industrial growth, education for the working people neglected and complete privatization of medical care. The US is not in any real danger of falling into deep, mass poverty but the description of policy decisions and their consequences by the authors cannot but remind readers of the politics of deeply red states like Alabama and Mississippi.
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