Author: West Bengal (India). Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Ishita Dey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134931441
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision of urban planners of creating a hi-tech town beyond an unruly, crowded Kolkata, and feeding the hunger of realtors and developers, the city is built on the foundations of coercive, even violent, land acquisition, state largesse and corruption — and at the cost of erasing a self-sufficient subsistence economy and despoiling a fragile environment. Yet, after its completion and departure of construction labour, the new town appears as a necropolis, a ghost city, that belies its promised image of an urban utopia, even as the displaced locals lead a precarious, mobile existence as ‘transit labour’, engaged in odd and informal jobs. Written on the basis of intensive fieldwork, government documents, court records, and chronicles of public protests, this book broadly analyses the politics and economics of urbanisation in the age of post-colonial capitalism, particularly the paradoxical combination of neoliberal and primitive modes of capital accumulation upon which the global emergence of ‘new towns’ is based. Departing from the dominant styles of urban studies that focus on cultural or spatial analysis of cities, the authors show the links between changes in space, technology, political economy, class composition, and forms of urban politics which give concrete shape to a city. It will immensely interest those in sociology, political science, economics, development studies, urban studies, policy and governance studies, and history.

Author: Ajitava Raychaudhuri
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177647310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Contributed articles.

Author: Clement Allan Tisdell
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781008195
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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In this title, international contributors, from both developing and higher income countries, identify and discuss major social conflicts, labour and distributional concerns, environmental issues and impacts arising from the very rapid increase in globalization experienced since the early 1970s.

Author:
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Gerry Rodgers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135777780
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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Bringing together the work of economists and sociologists in research programmes in a number of European institutions concerned with development, this collection analyses how social institutions contribute to an understanding of development. It shows how labour markets, labour relations and employment patterns respond to institutional forces, and thereby shape development paths and determine how different groups benefit from economic growth.

Author:
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
ISBN: 9788178358185
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Contributed articles; with special reference to West Bengal, India.

Author:
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180697234
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Author: Purnendu Sekhar Das
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180691935
Category : Participatory rural appraisal
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Contributed articles presented at two seminars on regional planning and participatory rural development predominantly on West Bengal held at Dept. of Economics with Rural Development, Vidyasagar University.

Author: Biswanath Ray
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170995272
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This Study Covers The Prevalent Social, Economic And Demographic Features Of The State. A Seperate Chapter Electricity In West Bengal: Present Position And Future Prospect Lays Emphasis On The Prospects Of Extensive Generation Of Electricity In The State In Order To Meet Its Industrial Requirements.