Ideas from India
| dc.contributor.editor | Doron, Assa | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Nelson, Barbara | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-13T09:09:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-13T09:09:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | India is a paradox. On the one hand, the country’s high growth rate has led to its international profile reaching new heights. The world’s largest democracy now features a burgeoning middle class, whose newly found economic and social freedoms are light years away from the old developmental state with its bureaucratic straitjacket that bound the economy. This middle class, however loosely defined, displays an insatiable appetite for consumer goods, thereby realising its hope of participating in the global economy as its most enthusiastic entrant. On the other hand, about a third of the population still lives below the poverty line. Suggestions that the adventurous Indian middle class will act as an engine propelling the country on to the world stage downplay the enormous challenges that lie ahead. While the contributors to this issue are very conscious of India’s rise to prominence, they are equally concerned about the implications and challenges involved. Many of the essays, though not all, are based on papers presented in November 2011 at the ‘Ideas from India’ symposium, which formed the year’s signature event at the Australian National University’s Research School of Asia and the Pacific. Some essays focus on the strategic implications of India’s growing dominance—and its potential to provide stability—in this otherwise volatile region. Others focus inwardly, illuminating India’s struggle to cope with enduring forms of social and economic inequality. The struggles and challenges lie not only in improving the country’s decaying infrastructure and mammoth, but stagnant, public service. They also lie in initiating new policy measures and state-led interventions aimed at addressing acute problems of poverty, malnutrition and gender imbalance, and infusing the education sector with dynamic ideas and practices. These, in turn, must be designed to enhance skill formation in order to capitalise on the so-called demographic dividend—the foundation for India’s future. | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.issn | 18375081 | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/229821 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
| dc.publisher | ANU Press | en_AU |
| dc.rights | Author/s retain copyright | en_AU |
| dc.source | East Asia Forum Quarterly | en_AU |
| dc.title | Ideas from India | en_AU |
| dc.type | Magazine issue | en_AU |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access via publisher website | en_AU |
| local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_AU |
| local.contributor.authoremail | anupress@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
| local.identifier.ariespublication | u9910377xPUB202 | |
| local.identifier.citationvolume | 4 | en_AU |
| local.identifier.doi | 10.22459/EAFQ.04.01.2012 | en_AU |
| local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u4026086 | en_AU |
| local.publisher.url | https://press.anu.edu.au/ | en_AU |
| local.type.status | Metadata only | en_AU |