Why the Poor Remain Poor
A.K. Dasgupta
INCOME DISTRIBUTION, GROWTH AND BASIC NEEDS IN INDIA R. Sinha, Peter Pearson, Gopal Kadekodi and Mary Gregory Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1979, 95 pp., 175
WINNERS AND LOSERS: STYLES OF DEVELOPMENT .AND CHANGE IN AN INDIAN REGION Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1979, 407 pp., 120.00
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Both these books deal with issues relating to poverty and inequality in the context of socio-economic development in India, but their perspectives and methods of analysis are quite different. The value of the first book ·lies in its detailed quantitative analysis of the process of income generation and distribution in India, provided in Chapters Two (‘A Macro-economic Model of Income Distri¬bution’) and Three (‘The Distribution of Value Added Among Income Classes’).

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