`As a compendium of data on India's education system and, to a
lesser extent its record on eliminating basic health problems and
gender inequality, the book is without recent peer.'
Financial Times
`As a compendium of data on India's education system ... the book
is without recent peer.'
India Financial Times
`The disappointing social statistics from India are today familiar
matter, but nowhere will you find as intensive a collation of a
number of them as in India: Economic Development and Social
Opportunity, by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen ... writtin throughout
in a fine, journalistic style; and it will be a starting point of
subsequent discussions on social life in India.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`They offer a commentary on data at the level of Indian state
governments.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`important book'
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
`In a broad comparative analysis of India's economic development,
Dreze and Sen have dealt with a wide range of issues in this book.
... A significant merit of this book lies in the link that the
authors establish between economic development and social
opportunity. ... A rich selection of statistical data prefaced with
a succinct explanatory note, a copious selection of appropriate
bibliographical references, and meticulously drawn up indexes (by
name and
by subject), together constitute material of inestimable value. The
strength of this book lies in the facility with which the authors
handle complex philosophical and economic issues in an
interpenetrating
manner. This makes the book a crucially important addition to the
literature on India's experience of economic development which
students of social science can ill afford to ignore.'
The Journal of Development Studies, vol.33, no.5, June 1997
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