This book analyzes India's impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the 'silent emergency' of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths. Building on Amartya Sen's famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country, it [...]

Questions the status of the development agenda and examines why development has eluded large groups of people living in poverty. This book argues that there is a general unwillingness to understand, and focus adequate attention on, the factors that explain the continued production of poverty and ine[...]