The Urban Village, Agrarian Transformation, and Rentier Capitalism in Gurgaon, India

Diethylene glycol poisoning in Gurgaon, India, 1998.

OBJECTIVE To discover the cause of acute renal failure in 36 children aged 2 months to 6 years who were admitted to two hospitals in Delhi between 1 April and 9 June 1998. METHODS Data were collected from hospital records, parents and doctors of the patients, and district health officials. Further information was obtained from house visits and community surveys; blood and stool samples were c...

Japan’s Capitalism in Systemic Transformation

From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism

In recent years, urban governance has become Increasingly preoccupied with the exploration of new ways in which to foster and encourage local development and employment growth. Such an entrepreneurial stance contrasts with the managerial practices of earlier decades which primarily focussed on the local provision of services, facilities and benefits to urban populations. This paper explores the...

The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism

924 they staged intraparty coups to oust the incumbent prime ministers in 2010 and 2013. In each of these cases, the result was electoral defeat. And while Japan’s cabinet system may not be working like that of the UK, New Zealand or Australia, perhaps it can be conceived of as just another parliamentary democracy model, under which the country was able to recover from the ruins of war to becom...

Composition of Migrants to Gurgaon District of State Haryana, India

Migration within the national boundaries of a country or internal migration is greater than the migration across the national boundaries. Also the impact of internal migration on the economic prosperity as well as the demographic diversity of the area of origin as well as area of destination is quite visible. However, the future growth of India is often discussed in perspective of megacities su...