Indian Muslim(s) After Liberalization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maidul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Economic Changes

Close to the turn of the century and almost 45 years after Independence, India opened its doors to free-market liberalization. Although meant as the promise to a better economic tomorrow, three decades later, many feel betrayed by the economic changes ushered in by this new financial era. Here is a book that probes whether India’s economic reforms have aided the development of Indian Muslims who have historically been denied the fruits of economic development. Maidul Islam points out that in current political discourse, the ‘Muslim question’ in India is not articulated in terms of demands for equity. Instead, the political leadership camouflages real issues of backwardness, prejudice, and social exclusion with the rhetoric of identity and security. Historically informed, empirically grounded, and with robust analytical rigour, the book tries to explore connections between multiple forms of Muslim marginalization, the socio-economic realities facing the community, and the formation of modern Muslim identity in the country. At a time when post-liberalization economic policies have created economic inequality and joblessness for significant sections of the population including Muslims, the book proposes working towards a radical democratic deepening in India.

scholarly journals Singapore: Reflections and Implications of Another Smart State

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Michael Porter ◽  
State Initiatives ◽  
The Development Strategy

The objective of this paper is to analyse key elements of the development strategy of Singapore since the mid–1960s. The paper describes the economic challenge faced by Singapore in the mid–1960s, overviews contemporary world trends in foreign direct investment, and uses competitiveness constructs developed by Michael Porter (1985) to clarify key stages in the evolution of Singapore's development strategy. The paper argues that the strategy has been successful because of unremitting top priority given to it by Singapore's political leadership and because the political leaders charged a single organisation, the Economic Development Board (EDB), with absolute authority to develop and implement the strategy. The paper concludes with implications for Queensland's Smart State initiatives.

Prologue

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-54
Author(s):  
Maidul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Neoliberal Reforms ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Academic Discourses

The Prologue contextualises the socio-economic conditions of Muslim minorities in contemporary India. It points out severe income inequality as the most significant feature of contemporary India, which is governed by the logic of neoliberal economic policies. This chapter reviews the political, policymaking, and academic discourses in the socio-political and economic contexts of neoliberal reforms in India. It introduces the questions that the book addresses in the later chapters. This introductory chapter also narrates the theoretical framework, the conceptual clarifications regarding the specificity of the Indian Muslim identity, the particular characteristics of the Indian version of neoliberalism, and the peculiarities of the political and policy regimes that sustain Indian neoliberalism and spells out the chapter plan in the book.

The Political Economy of Commercial Associations: Building the National Board of Trade, 1840–1868

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-783
Author(s):  
Cory Davis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
National Board ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Commercial Organizations

This article argues that, in the mid-nineteenth century, the American merchant community created local commercial organizations to propagate a vision of economic development based on republican ideals. As part of a “business revolution,” these organizations attempted to balance competition and cooperation in order to promote and direct the expansion of national markets and commercial activity throughout the country. Faced with the crisis of divergent sectional political economies and committed to the belief that businessmen needed a stronger political voice, merchant groups banded together to form the National Board of Trade, an association devoted to creating a unified commercial interest and shaping national economic policies.

scholarly journals DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Pansy Tlakula
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Economic Conflict ◽  
Economic Globalisation

There is agreement amongst political scientists and other scholars that there is a relationship between democracy, development and good governance. Democracy is a solid foundation for political and economic development. Democracy is also the best tool for managing social and economic conflict. There is also agreement that elections are central to the development of democracy in any country. Whilst elections on their own cannot guarantee development they are an important instrument through which all groups, including the most vulnerable, elect rulers of their choice. Once elected into power, these rulers assume the political power and authority to determine and shape national socio-economic policies and programmes that should result in better standards of living for the electorate whilst at the same time respond to the demands of economic globalisation. These rulers also decide on who forms the machinery of government, namely the executive, the judiciary, et cetera. 

Relationship of the Economic Basis and Political Superstructure of Modern Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Andrey N. Burmistrov ◽  
Yuriy V. Il’in ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Economic Basis ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Relationship Of

Economic basis existing in the Russian Federation was formed in the 1990s, but it was developing and finally took shape in the early 2000s. It was the political struggle for its implementation that determined the form, structure and nature of the modern political superstructure. As shown by the experience of recent years, the formed basis and superstructure are not intended to carry out in-depth socio-economic reforms in Russia. At the same time, Western total Jesuit Russophobia, the growing power and the number of global challenges, as well as insufficient socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, necessitate fundamental changes. In this regard, the authors provide justification for the need and explore possible ways to modernize the existing political superstructure in the Russian Federation in order to create conditions that provide a powerful and effective Russia's response to the global challenges of the nearest future.

“MENINGKATKAN DAYA SAING SEKTOR RIEL DI ERA MASYARAKAT EKONOMI ASEAN”

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Matdio Siahaan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
International Exhibitions ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
Domestic Products

ABSTRACTThis study aims how to the state and the development of Indonesia to level up the Competition in Asean Economic Community (AEC) of the real sector, of a free market in Southeast Asia which aims to stabilize the economies of member countries of Asean. Hopefully, by the MEA can overcome the problems in the economy in Indonesia.. This is indicated by the economic development of Indonesia in ASEAN is still below the rank of other states member.The Indonesian strategy prepared to facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), among others, to harmonizedomestic economic policies that associated with the systems and rules of the ASEAN ,Development investment and economic growth through government policies City and Country of one of them by strengthening the UKM products to foster through packaging, registration of the mark, and improve competitiveness domestic products and facilitate UKMs in international exhibitions so that the products can be known globally UKMs.

Visions of Nile basin development

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Whittington
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Nile Basin ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
Cooperative Development ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
The Way

This paper describes five alternative visions for cooperative Nile development in the hope that they will assist the Nile riparian countries in their search for both a consensus vision and sound development projects. These five alternate visions [(1) Century Storage Plus, (2) Water for Peace, (3) Southern Lights, (4) The Green Nile, and (5) Economic Partners on the Nile] are intentionally stylized to make them easy to understand and remember. There is a common thread tying all five of these alternative visions together: the desire of all riparian countries for peace and economic development. Each of the five visions describes a peaceful future in which its proponents believe economic prosperity will flourish. One of the advantages of thinking explicitly about these alternative visions is that comparisons can reveal surprising compromises - or coalitions - that may become possible between Nile riparian countries even though some members of the political leadership in the riparian countries may still hold quite different ideas about the way to achieve cooperative development.

scholarly journals POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA AND RUSSIA DURING THE COLD WAR

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Samra Sarfaraz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Cold War

The research paper entitled “Political and Economic Development in China and Russia During the Cold War,” focuses on the struggles made by the Chinese and Russian governments during the Cold War years for the improvement of economic situation of the two countries. By addressing such questions as the viability of the economic policies of Russia and China, the paper aims to bring to light the various methods used by the two governments to ensure improvement of the economic condition of the state, as well as of its people. Effort has also been made to draw a critical analysis of the power struggles and confrontations within the two regimes and the influence of the same on the political and economic graph of the two states. The paper, therefore, discusses the political issues within the People’s Republic of China and Russia and the effects of these frictions on the overall political and economic condition of the country. Moreover, the paper is also an attempt to analyze the reasons why Chinese attempts at economic development were more fruitful than the efforts made by their Russian counterparts.

The Political Economy of Growth and Development in India

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Corbridge ◽  
John Harriss ◽  
Craig Jeffrey
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Elite Politics ◽  
East And Southeast Asia

This article examines two puzzling trends that have characterized India’s economic growth. The first is how and why the political economy of development in India discarded an earlier model of import-substitution industrialization that was widely supported by the country’s dominant proprietary groups. The second is why, despite India’s economic success, poor people have remained mired in extreme poverty compared to China and some other countries in East and Southeast Asia. The article begins by looking at India’s economic development between 1950 and 1980 and then turns to economic reforms pursued by various governments. It also considers some of the factors that led India to embrace a more concerted agenda of pro-market reforms in the 1990s, including the economic crisis of 1990–1991 and elite politics.

Creating A Growth Pole: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1987

1991 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall C. Eakin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Growth Pole ◽  
Political Center ◽  
Belo Horizonte

On a warm December day in 1897 the political leadership of Minas Gerais converged on the small hamlet of Belo Horizonte to inaugurate a new capital for Brazil's most populous state. Foreshadowing the construction of Brasília six decades later, politicians and planners had transformed a rustic village of some 8,000 inhabitants into an enormous construction project. As with Brasília, those who promoted the move saw the new capital as a symbol and a catalyst. This planned city would symbolize the modernizing forces that were transforming Brazil and Minas Gerais at the turn of the century. More important, the rationally designed political center would also serve as a catalyst in the economic growth and integration of the state. In short, a modern, planned city would provide Minas Gerais with the dynamic economic and political capital that it so badly needed.

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