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SINGH Swaran (ed)
China-Pakistan Strategic Cooperation: Indian Perspectives
Manohar-CSH, New Delhi, 2007 ISBN: 81-7304-761-8 , 406 pages , Rs.895

This book is an attempt to collate Indian perspectives on the multifaceted themes and sectors of China-Pakistan strategic cooperation. China-Pakistan ties have been a major obsession with Indian opinion and policy makers. While this obsession remains restricted to China’s transfers of sensitive technologies, the essential backdrop sustaining such a unique ‘axis’ has not been explored with sufficient rigour. Given the secrecy that shrouds these transfers of missiles and nuclear material, technologies and knowhow, occasional outbursts in the Indian media suggest that commentary remains vulnerable to political populism, emotional outrage and calculated Western media leaks. These commentaries trigger flashes of interest but no substantive follow-up debate or dedicated research for evolving India’s policy options. The volume tries to fill this essential gap so as to generate serious debate on the contours and implications of China-Pakistan ties. The project locates itself primarily in a new context where the events following 9/11 and the growing India-China and India-Pakistan understanding seem to undermine the China-Pakistan axis. In addition to providing a wealth of information and analyses on a subject of critical importance, the volume aims at shedding populism and busting several myths that continue to burden Indian debates on China-Pakistan strategic cooperation.

CONTENTS

Preface

Contributors

Part I – Mutual Perceptions and Policies

1: Introduction
Swaran Singh

2: The Changing Imperatives
Anindyo J. Majumdar

3: Pakistan in China’s Security Perceptions
Srikanth Kondapalli

4: China in Pakistan’s Security Perceptions
Satyabrat Sinha

5: Strategic Thinking and Traditions
M.V. Rappai

6: Role of Political Culture
Sonika Gupta


Part II – Defence and Strategic Cooperation

7: Proliferation Concerns: An Overview
Arpit Rajain

8: Nuclear Proliferation Concerns
Savita Pande

9: Ballistic Missile Technology Transfers
Rajiv Nayan

10: Air and Aerospace Partnership
M. Matheswaran

11: Naval Cooperation
Vijay Sakhuja

12: The Maritime Convergence
W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar


Part III – Fundamentals of Strategic Engagement

13: Geopolitics of Economic Relations
Madhu Bhalla

14: Civilian Technology Transfer
D. Varaprasad Sekhar

15: Civilian Nuclear Cooperation
Arvind Kumar

16: Pakistan in China’s Arms Trade
Aparna Kher

17: The Karakoram Highway
Virendra Sahai Verma

18: The Xinjiang Factor
Abanti Bhattacharya


Bibligraphy

Index

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DUPONT Véronique & HEUZE Djallal G. (eds)
La Ville en Asie du Sud. Analyse et mise en perspective / Cities in South Asia: Analyses and prospects
Editions de L’EHESS, Collection Purushartha, n. 26, Paris, 2007 ISBN: 978-2-7132-2116-3 , 440 pages , 38€

Language : French & English

The city in South Asia, descendant of the world’s most ancient urban civilization, is situated in a predominantly rural region, which nonetheless produces mega-cities. These large cities, which are at the forefront of the subcontinent’s economic liberalisation process, are undergoing rapid changes in the face of globalisation. Three main themes engage with these transformations: urban re-structuring and social and spatial dimensions; urban conflict and social tensions; the reshaping of economic spaces.

The edited volume mobilizes various disciplinary fields in the social sciences and offers a comparative approach that aims to situate the South Asian urban experience in relation to trends observed elsewhere in Asia and on other continents as well.

Sommaire / Table of Contents

VERONIQUE DUPONT & DJALLAL G. HEUZÉ
Introduction
Introduction

Structure de la ville et recompositions socio-spatiales
Structure of the town and socio-spatial reshaping

ANNE VIGUIER
Images et formes urbaines. L'héritage précolonial du pays Tamoul
Urban forms and images : the pre-colonial legacy in Tamil Nadu

VINCENT GOOSSAERT
Villes saintes, villes fortifiées. Réflexions depuis la Chine sur le cas tamoul
Holy cities, fortified cities. On the Tamil case, as viewed from China

VÉRONIQUE DUPONT & USHA RAMANATHAN
Du traitement des slums à Delhi. Politiques de « nettoyage » et d’embellissement
Dealing with slums in Delhi : clearance and beautification policies

HÉLÈNE RIVIÈRE D'ARC
Une autre politique de centre ville en Amérique latine. La place réservée aux pauvres dans les « vieux » quartiers de São Paulo
A new policy for town-centers in Latin America: the space for the poor in the “old” districts of Sao Paulo.

ANNICK HOLLÉ
Les nouveaux quartiers du Grand Katmandou : conception et composition
The new suburbs of Greater Kathmandu: conception and patterns

LAURENT COUDROY DE LILLE
Quel statut urbanistique pour la ville héritée ?
Which town-planning for the inherited town?

MARIE-CAROLINE SAGLIO-YATZIMIRSKY
Village dans la ville ou village imaginaire ? Communautés migrantes de Mumbai
Village in town, or in imagination? The migrant communities in Mumbai.

RENÉ DE MAXIMY
Les villages urbains : concept ou abus de langage ?
Urban villages: concept or abuse of language?

Tensions sociales et tensions urbaines
Social tension, tension in the city

MICHEL BOIVIN
Violence, défragmentation sociale et intégration urbaine à Karachi dans
la perspective de la courte durée
Violence, social de-fragmentation, and urban integration: Karachi within a short prospect

DJALLAL G. HEUZE
La violence et la ville : le cas de Mumbai durant les deux dernières décennies du XXe siècle
Violence in the city: the case of Mumbai in the last two decades of the 20th century

JEAN-CHARLES DEPAULE
Violences et territoires
Violence for territories

La ville et le développement économique local et mondial
The city and the local and global economic development

LORAINE KENNEDY
Shaping economic space in Chennai and Hyderabad. The assertion of State-level policies in the post-reform area.

CHRISTIAN AZAÏS
Libéralisation économique et disparités générales : des évolutions contrastées entre l'Inde et le Brésil ?
Liberalisation policies and regional disparities: contrasts in the evolution of India and Brazil ?

GIULIA DE PONTE
Désindustrialisation, précarisation du travail et transformation des réseaux politiques urbains : la ville de Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
De-industrialization, labour precariousness and changes in urban political networks: Kanpur City (Uttar Pradesh)

PHILIPPE HAERINGER
Après l'usine, la ville. L'indispensable économie endogène en Uttar Pradesh et ailleurs
After the factory, the town: on the unavoidability of an endogenous economy in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere.

DJALLAL G. HEUZE
Epilogue
Epilogue

Jean-François Huchet, Xavier Richet & Joël Ruet (eds.)
Globalisation in China, India & Russia: Emergence of National Groups and Global Strategies of Firms
Centre de Sciences Humaines / Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2007 ISBN: 81-7188-582-9 , 363 pages , Rs.895

No study of globalisation is possible, nor is it thinkable, without referring to China, India, Russia, that is to say, without an analysis of their firms and including them in the global network of firms. The three countries under study had socialist economies and are now going through a process of transition towards a market economy with various degrees of success and, more importantly, using different methods as far as the relationship between the State and the firms is concerned. Also, to a large extent, researchers in economics have until now viewed these countries in a somewhat unbalanced manner and they have seldom been the object of a comparative study from the perspective of the globalization of their firms. The evolution in policy issues has been strongly backed by a similar evolution in economic theory, the effects strongly felt in former socialist countries, namely Russia and China, as well as in countries which had and still have a large ‘public sector’ like India. Neither the markets nor the States are nowadays seen as perfect, and this book deals at many places much more with their subtle interactions or coordination, than opposition.

CONTENTS

List of Tables, Figures, Boxes and Appendices
Editors/Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword

Introduction

1. Emergence of National Groups and Global Strategies of Firms: Globalisation in China, India and Russia
JEAN-FRANCOIS HUCHET, XAVIER RICHET AND JOEL RUET

Part I : The Private in Context: Public Reforms
2. Between Bureaucracy and Market: Chinese Industrial Groups in Search of New Forms of Corporate Governance
JEAN-FRANCOIS HUCHET and XAVIER RICHET
3. Economic Reforms, Privatisations and Public Private Developments in India since 1991
JOEL RUET
4. Productivity and Competitive Challenges for the Russian Economy: Room for a More Proactive Policy?
ERIC BRUNAT and ANDREI KLEPACH

Part II : Markets and Competitivity
5. Impact of Liberalisation of Trade and Investment on Chinese Industrial Firms
JEAN-FRANCOIS HUCHET
6. Firm and Industry Response to Liberalisation in India: Theory and Evidence
MANMOHAN AGARWAL and ALOKESH BARUA
7. The Indian Power Sector in a Command Economy: Liberal Reforms or Indian-style Development?
JOEL RUET
8. Subcontracting in Indian Industries, Market Structure and Product Quality: Implications under Globalisation
AJITAVA RAYCHAUDHURI
9. India-Russia Economic Relations: Gradual Shift from State Dominant Linkages to Private Initiatives
GULSHAN SACHDEVA

Part III : Restructuring and Strategies of Firms
10. Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Automotive Industry
HUA WANG
11. On the Role of Foreign Investment in the Development of a Market Economy in China
RIGAS ARVANTIS, PIERRE MIEGE and ZHAO WEI
12. A Theory of Buy-outs in Joint Ventures
SUGATA MARJIT and PRABAL ROY CHOWDHURY
13. Asset Specificity, Partnerships and Global Strategies of Information Technology and Biotechnology Firms in India
JOEL RUET
14. Emergence and Entry of Industrial Groups in Russia: The Case of the Car Industry
XAVIER RICHET

Index

HUCHON Agnès, TRICOT Guillaume
Between Citizens and Institutions: The Dynamics of the Integration of Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Hyderabad
CSH Occasional Paper Nº22, New Delhi, 2008 ISSN: 0972-3579 , 135 pages

Abstract

Urban growth in Hyderabad has underscored the need for restructuring urban services, starting with public utilities. What changes are taking place in this sector? Who initiates and implements policies? What is their impact on the public? These questions are addressed in this detailed study of Hyderabad's water supply and sanitation services. The paper focuses on institutional changes with regard to the main service providers - the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad - and provides a critical analysis of restructuring and policies ostensibly aimed at providing uniform service throughout the metropolitan region. In order to evaluate how policies play out on the ground, two distinct areas of the city were selected for field surveys. In this way, the spatial dimension of urban service delivery - including deployment of physical infrastructure networks as well as social infrastructure - was examined in order to analyze the relative integration of a city and to determine the main factors of segregation. The findings dispel a number of conventional ideas about unequal service levels between the old and new parts of the city and between different income groups, and offer a more nuanced explanation for differential access using both social and spatial variables. The paper also addresses the demand side of the water supply and sanitation equation, analyzing the ways in which different categories of users try to improve access or service levels. The authors explore user expectations and the various means deployed to channel grievances, which reveal different modes of democratic interaction between the public and the authorities.

This study contributes to debates surrounding urban governance and decentralization in India's cities. On one hand, it enhances understanding of recent developments in Hyderabad, a city on the forefront of many urban reforms in recent years. On the other hand, its analytical method - combining a macro study of institutional changes on the supply side with field surveys to analyze differential social and spatial access to service and household practices for improving service levels - offers numerous insights that are significant for studies of other metropolitan cities.

Table of Contents

PREFACE BY LORAINE KENNEDY & MARIE HÉLÈNE ZÉRAH

INTRODUCTION

I)POLITICAL WILL TO STANDARDIZE / MODERNIZE THE SERVICE
1.Medium and Long-term Objectives: Rationalizing the Service
a.Infrastructural Requirements
b.Outsourcing of Operations at the Consumers' End
c.Integration of Municipal Services into a Single Entity for the Whole City
d.General Trends in Andhra Pradesh
2.Short-term Objectives: Reinventing the Relationship with Consumers
a.Customer Satisfaction
b.Improvement of Public Image
3.At What Level should the Service be Standardized?
a.Connecting Individual Lines to the Network
b.Sewerage Network
c. Storm Water Drainage

II) TESTING THIS POLICY AT THE LEVEL OF MUNICIPAL WARDS
1.Slight Difference in Service between the Two Sections
2.Old Urban Infrastructure and Economic Dynamism
3.The Special Case of Slums and Underprivileged Localities
4.Inadequate Correlation between Standard of Living and Level of Service
5.Is there Uniform Implementation of Directives from Above by Section 0ffices?

III) RESIDENTS RESORT TO SELF-HELP TO IMPROVE SERVICE
1.Individual Complaints: Differences in Response according to Locality
2.Representation: Need for Intermediaries
a.Neighbourhood Democracy
b.The Municipal Corporator: A Representative of the People and a Partner of the Administration?
3.Arrangements of Residents' Associations: Joint Representation and Common Equipment
a.To Support and Relieve or Substitute Public Authorities?
b.Question of Social Redistribution

CONCLUSION
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ANNEXES

The CSH Occasional Papers can be downloaded for free on the CSH website

MENON-CHOUDHARY Deepa, SHUKLA P.R., HOURCADE Jean-Charles & MATHY Sandrine
Aligning Development, Air Quality and Climate Policies for Multiple Dividends
CSH Occasional Paper N°21, New Delhi, 2007 ISSN: 0972-3579 , 95 pages

Abstract

This paper proposes that environment protection should be made complementary to the development process, by aligning different policies that avoid trade-offs and generate multiple dividends during policy implementation. This is especially true for developing countries where crucial development policies with long-term implications are being formulated. There is a good opportunity to align development, local air quality management and climate change policies that both reduces costs and achieves multiple dividends. Empirical evidence, including the Environmental Kuznets’ Curve, shows that, as a country progresses economically, concern develops for the environment due to availability of resources and public pressure. This is found more for local pollutants, while preventing greenhouse gas emissions need conscious policymaking. This approach is reflected in developing countries, where air quality problems are being addressed individually. A more pro-active approach would generate no-regrets options, moving a country on a pathway that prevents local air quality deterioration and is also less carbon-intensive. Since developing countries fear that climate change negotiations can impede development, developed countries should support their move to align policies by directing climate-related as well as public/private flows towards a development-oriented pathway. This would create leverage effects on implementation of domestic policies and help overcome transaction costs. A win-win situation can thus emerge, which addresses the developing countries’ concerns of development and local air quality management along with the global concern for climate change.

Taking India’s case, this paper looks at policies in the planning process incorporating the environmental agenda. The focus is on preventing local air quality deterioration. But, since benefits related to preventing greenhouse gas emissions often lie at the margin, conjoint benefits can be obtained at optimal costs. This paper looks at measures like use of CNG in public transport and development of mass rapid transit systems. Systems like the Metro Rail address congestion problems besides providing suitable means of public transport. Similarly, promoting CNG on environmental grounds would enhance CNG availability for power generation. Research shows opportunities for conjoint mitigation of CO2 and SO2 emissions from the power sector. Adoption of these measures requires conscious attempts by national policymakers, with support in the form of technological and investment flows from developed countries.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Inter-linkages between development, climate change and air quality
2. Development and energy use
3. Existing policy approaches of developed and developing countries
4. Case for aligning policies in developing countries
5. Paper structure

I. Economics of Alignment
1. Environmental Kuznets’ Curve
2. No-regrets options
3. Leverage effects of alignment

II. Multiple Dividends from Alignment: Indian Experience
1. Energy and environment profile
2. Existing policies linking development and environment
3. Alternate policies and measures

III. Developing an Architecture for Alignment
1. Policy approaches
2. Shifting towards an environment-friendly pathway
3. Global mechanisms to facilitate alignment, with emphasis on climate change negotiations
4. Some specific policy options

IV. Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix I: AIM/Local Model