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Growing Mountain, Shrinking Mouse? Indian Poverty and British Bilateral Aid

I. Introduction and Summary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Michael Lipton
Michael Lipton
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Sussex University
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In the book compiled by Mervyn Jones after Kingsley Martin's death in 1969, Asa Briggs recalled that ‘no country meant more to Kingsley Martin than India’. Martin's writing, campaigning and travelling all confirm this. His life also confirms his priorities for development and poverty reduction. Famously, however, he was not an economist, and he does not seem to have brought these concerns together, or to have asked how aid might best be used to help. This paper, in a small way, aims to fill that gap.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1996, pp. 481 - 522
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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