Developments in Karnataka Challenges of Governance, Equity and Empowerment

by Kadekodi, Gopal K.; Kanbur, Ravi; Rao, Vijayendra

• ISBN13: 9788171886197
• ISBN10: 8171886191
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Academic Foundation

Summary

Karnataka was founded 50 years ago and in those decades has embodied the challenges and contradictions that are faced by the rest of India-spectacular technology-led growth in Bangalore tempered with an abiding sense of the city's ungovernability, enduring gender inequity and regional disparities, and a visibly increasing gap between urban and rural areas. Yet, Karnataka is also increasingly being seen as a model of development. Bangalore's metamorphosis from a noun to a verb is the archetypical symbol of an India "unbound", and Karnataka's pioneering experiment with Panchayati Raj reform under the Hegde government in the 1980's sparked the 73rd amendment to the Indian Constitution and the consequent and continuing wave of devolutions in finance and power to panchayats. This emphasis on technology-led growth coupled with local government reform is, at least in theory, a singularly innovative strategy to address the challenge of generating growth with equity and can be described as the "Karnataka Model" of development.

Author Biography

Gopal K. Kadekodi is a former director of the Institute for Social and Economic Change, a former research professor at the Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research–Dharwad, and a professor at the Institute of Economic Growth–New Delhi. Ravi Kanbur is the T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Economics at Cornell University. He is a former senior staff member of the World Bank. Vijayendra Rao is a lead economist in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He is a coeditor of Culture and Public Action and the author of several papers on decentralized local development, gender inequality, and culture and economic behavior.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes	p. 9
Editors/Contributors	p. 13
Introduction and Overview
Assessing the "Karnataka Model of Development"	p. 17
Politics and Policy
Change in Karnataka Over the Last Generation: Villages and the Wider Context	p. 37
Political Leadership and Economic Development in Karnataka	p. 63
Ideological Elements in Political Stability in Karnataka: Janata Dal in the Late 1990s	p. 87
To Be or Not to Be: Problems in Locating Women in Public Policy	p. 107
Civil Society and Governance
Conceptualising NGO-State Relations in Karnataka: Conflict and Collaboration Amidst Organisational Diversity	p. 127
Communication, Democracy and Evasive Silences: A Preliminary Report on the Public Sphere in Karnataka	p. 147
Corruption and Local Governance: Evidence from Karnataka	p. 167
Dynamics of Local Governance in Karnataka	p. 197
Federalism, Urban Decentralisation and Citizen Participation	p. 219
The Political Economy of Gram Panchayats in South India	p. 243
Sectoral Perspectives and Interventions
Agrarian Reform for a Liberal Pattern of Society? Karnataka's Land Policy and Poverty Alleviation	p. 265
ICT Sector and Economic Development: Evidence from Karnataka State	p. 291
Social Mobility in the Context of Occupational Health: The Case of Silk Reeling	p. 323
Systematic Hierarchies and Systemic Failures: Gender and Health Inequities in Koppal District	p. 351
Choosing 'not' to Participate-Evidence from Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP) in Chitradurga, Karnataka	p. 377
At Times When Limbs May Fail: Social Security for Unorganised Workers in Karnataka	p. 407
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.