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Experiences and Reimaginings of Development from a Kutchi Village

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This article asks how the global financial crisis (GFC) affected rural communities in western India that have always lived with crises. A visit to Kutch, a border district in Gujarat, revisited after seven years, revealed that the GFC was not very present in the lives of the general population and there was very little radical reimagining of development. Despite impressive post‐earthquake reconstruction, massive improvements in infrastructure and a rapid growth rate, there appeared to be very few changes to age‐old, feudal, caste and gender inequalities. Economic development had not translated to human development and there remain several ecological unknowns and potential negative impacts in terms of long‐term environmental sustainability.

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  • Lyla Mehta, 2011. "Experiences and Reimaginings of Development from a Kutchi Village," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(5), pages 30-35, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:42:y:2011:i:5:p:30-35
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    1. Neeru Bansal & R. Parthasarathy, 2021. "Fiscal incentives and industrialisation: the case of Kachchh, Gujarat," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer;Institute for Social and Economic Change, vol. 23(1), pages 71-92, June.
    2. Luxion, Mona, 2017. "Nation-building, industrialisation, and spectacle: Political functions of Gujarat’s Narmada pipeline project," SocArXiv ewa8b, Center for Open Science.

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