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Jean Dréze

    Jean Drèze's work centers on social and economic development, with a particular focus on India. His writings delve deeply into themes of poverty, famine, education, and public action. Drèze's approach is characterized by rigorous research combined with a strong impetus for social change. His publications frequently explore the intricate connections between institutions, policies, and the lives of vulnerable populations, illuminating pathways toward a more equitable society.

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    India. Economic Development and Social Opportunity
    Disintegration in Four Parts
    An Uncertain Glory
    An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
    Sense and Solidarity
    • 2021

      "'All purity is created by resemblance and disavowal.' With this sentence as a starting point, four authors each write a novella considering the concept of purity, all from astonishingly different angles. Jean Marc Ah-Sen writes about love blooming between two writers belonging to feuding literary movements. Emily Anglin explores an architect's search for her twin at a rural historic house. Devon Code documents the Wittgensteinian upheavals of the last days of an elderly woman. And Lee Henderson imagines Dada artist Kurt Schwitters finding unlikely inspiration in a Second World War internment camp in northern Norway. These four virtuoso pieces, like four suites of music, are a celebration of stylistic variation through literary consonance."-- Provided by publisher

      Disintegration in Four Parts
    • 2019

      This collection of Jean Dreze's essays offer a unique insight on issues of hunger, poverty, inequality, corruption, conflict, and the evolution of social policy in India over the last twenty years. Sense and Solidarity enlarges the boundaries of social development towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create.

      Sense and Solidarity
    • 2014

      After regaining independence in 1947, India immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system. This book presents an analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.

      An Uncertain Glory
    • 2013

      Two of the country's leading economists discuss how the underdevelopment of social services, archaic attitudes towards women and problems with physical services are a stark contrast to the fast-moving economic successes of India over the past 65 years. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)

      An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions