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Review of Development and Change
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ISSN (Print) 0972-2661 - ISSN (Online) 2632-055X
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Gender Wage Gap among Rural Non-farm Sector Employees in India: Evidence
from Nationally Representative Survey
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  Authors: Shiba Shankar Pattayat, Jajati Keshari Parida, Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh
  Pages: 22 - 44
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 22-44, June 2023.
  This article examines the gender-wise work participation rate and evaluates the wage disparity between male and female workers employed as either regular or casual employees in rural non-farm sectors. Based on the National Sample Survey data of 2004–2005 and 2019–2020, it is found that the gender inequality (against women) in employment opportunity is not only prevalent in the rural non-farm labour market but also on the rise during the last one and a half decades. The perceived difference in human capabilities between women and men and the non-availability of enough job opportunities could be a major driver of this inequality, apart from the existing social stigma in hiring the women in the rural labour market. This is reflected by the rise in the mean wage difference between two genders during 2004–2005 and 2019–2020. Both the mean and the quantile decomposition results suggest that a higher percentage of gender wage differentials is due to endowment components or labour productivity differences. Because of the existence of the ‘sticky floor’ phenomenon, the wage disparity is relatively larger at the bottom end of the earning distribution. But it reduces when we stride towards higher quintiles on the wage distribution. Hence, it is argued that policies aimed at enhancing the skill endowment of rural women can substantially reduce both the non-farm sector gender wage gap and the inequality in access to non-farm employment.
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-06-24T05:36:05Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231172867
  Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2023)
Book review: Pamela Singla, Women’s Participation in Panchayati Raj:
Nature and Effectiveness
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  Authors: Ankit
  Pages: 128 - 130
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 128-130, June 2023.
  Pamela Singla, Women’s Participation in Panchayati Raj: Nature and Effectiveness. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007, x+285 pp., $9.16, ISBN: 8131601196 (Hardback).
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-06-24T05:36:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231161930
  Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2023)
Book review: K. Rajesh, Local Politics and Participatory Planning in
Kerala: Democratic Decentralisation 1996–2016
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  Authors: Anjaly Baby
  Pages: 130 - 132
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 130-132, June 2023.
  K. Rajesh, Local Politics and Participatory Planning in Kerala: Democratic Decentralisation 1996–2016. Primus Books, 2020, 167 pp., ₹950. ISBN: 9789390022267 (Hardback).
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-06-24T05:36:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231172292
  Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2023)
Book review: Preet S. Aulakh and Raveendra Chittoor, Coping with Global
Institutional Change: A Tale of India’s Textile and Pharmaceutical
Industries
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  Authors: Sibin Jerry Thomas, Malini L. Tantri
  Pages: 132 - 135
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 132-135, June 2023.
  Preet S. Aulakh and Raveendra Chittoor, Coping with Global Institutional Change: A Tale of India’s Textile and Pharmaceutical Industries. Cambridge University Press, 2022, 230 pp., ₹950. ISBN: 9781009176330 (Hardback).
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-06-24T05:36:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231173749
  Issue No: Vol. 28, No. 1 (2023)
An Inquiry into Households’ Confidence Levels in Various Institutions in
India: A Temporal Assessment from the IHDS
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  Authors: Udaya Shankar Mishra, Hrushikesh Mallick, Balakrushna Padhi
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Ahead of Print.
  This study attempts to assess the variations in households’ confidence levels in various sociopolitical institutions with varying socioeconomic and cultural characteristics across major Indian states based on two rounds of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS-I, 2004–2005; IHDS-II, 2011–2012). It traces the presence of a lower confidence level of households in governance institutions compared with other institutions, implying a deficit of households’ confidence in this component against the overall confidence score, which marginally improves over time. The states of Jammu and Kashmir and Mizoram have a lower level of confidence score in governance and justice compared to other states. On analysing the socioeconomic determinants of households’ confidence in two rounds of the IHDS separately, this study observes that regional and economic factors are more significant in shaping the confidence levels of households than any other socioeconomic attributes.
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-06-14T06:48:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231170505
Drivers of Households’ off-the-farm Income Diversification Patterns in
Nigeria: Panel Evidence Using General Household Survey Data
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  Authors: Ndubuisi Obeka Chukwu, Jude Okechukwu Chukwu
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Ahead of Print.
  This study examines the drivers of households’ off-the-farm income diversification patterns using four waves of the Nigeria General Household Survey panel data. The study further investigates the motives for households’ off-the-farm income diversification patterns. The Simpson Income Diversification index and count index were used to measure income diversification. The results of heteroscedastic fractional probit correlated random effects and Poisson fixed effects indicate that the level of diversifying off-the-farm income is driven by attributes of household such as assets value, household size, female headship, level of education, dependency ratio, access to credit, distance to tarred road and geographical location of household at the national level. The study found that the motive for accumulation drives households’ off-the-farm income diversification rather than the motive for survival. Specifically, non-poor households in the urban sector seem more probable to expand into off-the-farm income enterprises than poor rural households. A major finding is that the choice of off-the-farm income diversification proxy has a great influence on the drivers.
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-06-11T10:18:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231173122
State versus Market Debate and Shaping of the Gender Empowerment Agenda
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  Authors: Mohammad Muaz Jalil
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Ahead of Print.
  This article argues that during the neoliberal and post-Washington consensus era, a broader development debate around state versus market has led to the dominance of instrumental articulation of the gender empowerment agenda. Although scholarship around empowerment has evolved, in the works of the development agencies and broader development discourse, constrained by the overarching debate around state versus market, gender empowerment has been robbed of its transformative potential. This study frames the empowerment debate around three parameters: (a) narrow versus broad, (b) individual agency versus intersectionality and (c) instrumental versus intrinsic justification for empowerment. Finally, future avenues of research are identified, especially how NGOs, transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) can effectively challenge the current corporate agenda or paradigm.
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-06-11T10:17:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231169144
Cooperativism in Indigenous Culture and the Idea of Community Economy:
Rethinking the Economic Space
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  Authors: Rimon Bhuyan Gogoi
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Ahead of Print.
  This paper deals with the capitalocentrism of political economy discourses and diverse forms of collective economic practices in indigenous communities as bulwark against the hegemony that capitalocentrism creates. It refers to some important cooperative experiments across the world and examines in detail the collective customary practices of the Rabhas, an indigenous community of Assam. Being a community that historically revolved around the collective, much of its politico-economic autonomy and customary practices were interrupted by colonial occupation. The community struggles to keep many of its customary community practices alive and, in the process, has creatively adapted them into many modern institutions.
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-04-10T03:11:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231158508
Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab: The State, Conflicting Interests and
Contested Collaborations
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  Authors: V. J. Varghese, Kaveri Qureshi
  Abstract: Review of Development and Change, Ahead of Print.
  Taking into account the case of Indian Punjab, this paper complicates the idea of diasporic philanthropy as essentially progressive, demotic and monophonic in an attempt to underscore it as a field of diverse players, interests and signifiers. Drawing upon ethnographic observations of philanthropic networks in Punjab made by the authors between 2009 and 2017 and augmented by the analysis of policy and media reports from Punjab in the past two decades, this paper makes three interlinked arguments. First, it challenges the notion of diasporic exchanges as a one-to-one direct connection unmediated by none, by demonstrating how the state of Punjab is deeply implicated in the homeland ties of the diaspora and by formalising otherwise informal transnational philanthropic exchanges through new institutions and discourses, albeit with the often paradoxical consequence of curbing diaspora interest. Second, it argues that far from singular in their orientation towards and aspirations for the homeland, diaspora philanthropy reflects conflicting visions of development and future for home. Third, it foregrounds the waning enthusiasm of the diaspora for philanthropic investments in the face of the intractable problems of reception and questions of sustainability and the increasing involvement of local people in diaspora philanthropic endeavours, making such projects transnational collaborations for local development rather than singular diasporic initiatives of philanthropy.
  Citation: Review of Development and Change
  PubDate: 2023-04-04T04:31:11Z
  DOI: 10.1177/09722661231152708