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India’s New Development Agenda: Building a Value-Based Society and Public Policy and Citizenship: Battling Managerialism in India

With the 2014 General Elections approaching in India, economic policies, growth and development are becoming key issues in the political debate. The global recession highlighted the necessity to reassess the paradigms of economic development and many analysts started to challenge neo-liberal dogma. However, political parties and mainstream economists are slow to acknowledge the request for new and more inclusive policies that arise from public opinion. In developing countries like India, the adoption of economic models based on the ‘market theology’ of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (Mujumdar, p. 20) produced some disturbing effects, whereby a decade (1991–2001) of high GDP growth rates was accompanied by a steep increase in the number of undernourished people (ibid., p. 56).