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dc.contributor.authorSarkar, Runa
dc.contributor.authorSinha, Anup
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-27T08:23:12Z
dc.date.available2021-08-27T08:23:12Z
dc.date.issued2014-06
dc.identifier.issn0304-0941 (print version) ; 2197-1722 (electronic version)
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40622-014-0039-z
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/3084
dc.descriptionRuna Sarkar & Anup Sinha, Economics, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India
dc.descriptionp.193-203
dc.descriptionIssue Editor – Nimruji Jammulamadaka & Gavin Jack
dc.description.abstractMicro-interventions in rural India to create sustainable livelihoods are all aimed at generating income and wealth through new activities, preserving and accumulating natural assets like water and trees, and empowering poor people by encouraging their active participation. We studied one such intervention in the state of Gujarat and its implications for sustainability. In this project, small and marginal farmers after being introduced to new economic activities were pooled together into a larger cooperative network that in turn fed into a producers’ company. This organisation created its own brand, used modern technology and accessed markets all over India. The idea of this experiment came from a well known NGO with experience of working in rural India. This experiment was a novel way of bringing poor farmers into the structure of a modern and reasonably large, market-driven enterprise, without creating wage labour or dispossessing people from their lands. The lessons from the experiment indicate the importance of understanding that participation and empowerment cannot be attained through a mechanical, target-driven and time bound approach. Instead, it could result in a relationship marked by dependence and passive participation.
dc.publisherIndian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol.41;No.2 (Special Issue : Business, Governance and Society)
dc.subjectDevelopment intervention
dc.subjectLivelihoods
dc.subjectParticipation
dc.subjectDependence
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.titleThe business of development: a case study of participation and dependence
dc.typeArticle
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