Growth and hunger in India

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 90-104

  Banik, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 80051658050     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2011.0049     Document Type: Note

References (17)

1. The number of undernourished people increased from 172 million in 1990-92 to 237 million in 2005-2007. For further details.
2. see Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010 (Rome: FAO, 2010), 50.
3. Atul Kohli, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 261.
4. Elena Arnal and Michael Förster, Growth, Employment and Inequality in Brazil, China, India and South Africa: An Overview, in OECD, Tackling Inequalities in Brazil, China, India and South Africa: The Role of Labour Market and Social Policies (Paris: OECD, 2010), 37.
5. Shekhar Aiyar, Growth Theory and Convergence Across Indian States: A Panel Study, in Tim Callen, Patricia Reynolds, and Christopher Towe, eds., India at the Crossroads: Sustaining Growth and Reducing Poverty (Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 2001), 149.
6. Angus Deaton and Jean Dreze, Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-examination, in Arjun Sengupta, Archna Negi, and Moushumi Basu, eds., Reflections on the Right to Development (New Delhi: Sage Publications India, 2005), 243-75.
7. Also see Government of India, Planning Commission, National Human Development Report 2001, March 2002.
8. See M.H. Suryanarayana, Public Policies, Social Development and Poverty Reduction: The Kerala Model, in Raundi Halvorson-Quevedo and Hartmut Schneider, eds., Waging the Global War on Poverty: Strategies and Case Studies (Paris: OECD, 2000), 157-186.
9. See also Patrick Heller, Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization: Decentralization and the Transformation of Movement Politics in Kerala, in Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, eds., Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 79-106.
10. For an overview of the recent debates, see Dietmar Rothermund, India: The Rise of an Asian Giant (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), ch. 16.
11. Also see Arvind Panagariya, India: The Emerging Giant (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), ch. 7.
12. K. Sundaram and Suresh D. Tendulkar, Poverty Decline in India in the 1990s: A Reality and Not an Artifact, in Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 342-364.
13. Government of India, Planning Commission, Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Estimation of Poverty, November 2009, Annexure A. 10. See India Country Overview, September 2010, available at: http://go.worldbank.org/ZUIBUQT360.
14. Malavika A. Subramanyam et al., Is Economic Growth Associated with Reduction in Child Undernutrition in India? PLoS Medicine 8 (March 2011).
15. The figure for Kerala was 2,200 kilocalories per day.
16. Government of India, Annual Plan 2000-2001 (New Delhi: Planning Commission, 2000), 5.
17. This section draws from Dan Banik, Starvation and India's Democracy (London: Routledge, 2007).