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The Implications of “Stunted Structural Transformation” for Rural India

How lives change: Palanpur, India and development economics, by Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, xiv+ 501 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-880650-9.Capitalism, inequality and labour in India, by Jan Breman, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xiii+286 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-48241-7

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