Development, Inclusion and Sustainability : Issues and Perspectives

This book addresses the overarching theme of promoting inclusive and sustainable development through twelve contributions that discuss perspectives from emerging economies and policies for a better world. The contributions are divided into four sections -- Employment and Livelihoods; Capabilities and Mobilities; Sustainable and Inclusive Urbanization; and Perspectives for Policies. The first section contains two chapters that deal with employment and labour markets. In the second section, there are four contributions that discuss capabilities (education and health) and their roles in intergenerational mobility, contributing to poverty reduction and inclusive development. The third section comprises of four chapters concerning various aspects of urbanisation in diverse empirical contexts. And the last section consists of two contributions providing policy perspectives. The volume is thus a diverse mix of empirical research and provides critical insights into the Global South’s development process. It is an important reference for all those concerned with sustainable and inclusive development.

Abhinav Alakshendra is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He is also the Director, Center for International Design and Planning at the University. He holds a PhD in Economics from Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. His research interests are mainly focused on the areas of urbanization, international development, and applied microeconomics in Southeast Asia. He is a recipient of many prestigious research grants including UKAID, Land and Housing Institute, Korea, and Florida Department of Transportation, and has many research publications to his credit published in international journals. 

Amrita Datta is Assistant Professor of Development Studies at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Amrita’s research interests are in the areas of migration and mobilities, agrarian change and rural development, women’s work, and gender and development. Based on empirical research, Amrita’s book, ‘Migration and Development in India: The Bihar Experience’ (2022), studies out-migration from rural Bihar in the context of neoliberal economic development in India. Amrita has published in several edited volumes and journals such as the Journal of Development Studies, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Children’s Geographies, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, and the Economic and Political Weekly. Amrita has a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and an MPhil in the same subject from the University of Cambridge.

Bhim Reddy is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. He is a social anthropologist who is engaged in mixed-methods development research. His doctoral research was focussed on rural-urban labour migration, agrarian political economy and social change. His current interests are in the areas of rural transformation, farm technologies and work, urbanisation and socio-spatial inequalities; youth, migration and employment; gender inequality, intersections and violence; drinking cultures and alcohol policy. Dr. Reddy has been on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Human Development as its Associate Editor since 2015.