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Power, Policy, and Protest: The Politics of India's Special Economic Zones
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Jenkins, Rob; Kennedy, Loraine; Mukhopadhyay, Partha. Num Pages: 384 pages, Halftone 2 (ch. 7). BIC Classification: 1FKA; KCB; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
India's attempt to spur growth, boost exports, and create jobs by establishing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is a paradox: the policy represents an intensification of the country's increasingly market-oriented development paradigm, but implementation has required active government involvement. More than a decade after importing the SEZ concept from China, India has hundreds of these walled-off, deregulated, low-tax enclaves. But an industrialization strategy pioneered in authoritarian China has faced huge political resistance in democratic India. Protest movements arose in many localities where SEZs were proposed. Resistance varied in terms of the intensity and sustainability of opposition, the grievances articulated, and the ... Read more
India's attempt to spur growth, boost exports, and create jobs by establishing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is a paradox: the policy represents an intensification of the country's increasingly market-oriented development paradigm, but implementation has required active government involvement. More than a decade after importing the SEZ concept from China, India has hundreds of these walled-off, deregulated, low-tax enclaves. But an industrialization strategy pioneered in authoritarian China has faced huge political resistance in democratic India. Protest movements arose in many localities where SEZs were proposed. Resistance varied in terms of the intensity and sustainability of opposition, the grievances articulated, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780198097341
SKU
V9780198097341
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About Director Centre For South Asian Studies Paris
Rob Jenkins, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Loraine Kennedy, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris; and Deputy Director, Centre for South Asian Studies, Paris. Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
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