Book Chapters
Book – Cancer Care in Pandemic Times: Building Inclusive Local Health Security in Africa and India (Palgrave Macmillan)
Editor(s) Name(s): Dr. Geoffrey Banda, Prof. Maureen Mackintosh, Dr. Mercy Karimi Njeru, Prof. Fortunata Makene, Prof. Smita Srinivas
Srinivas, S. (forth.) ICCA chapter “Cupboard Full, Cupboard Empty” in Banda, Mackintosh, Njeru, Sangere, Srinivas (forth). Open Access edited book, on Cancer Care. Shortly to be published by Palgrave McMillan’s International Series.
Srinivas, S., O. Ghai, and L. Rajyadaksha (forth.) “Palliation economics: the industrial organization of morphine in India” n Banda, Mackintosh, Njeru, Sangere, Srinivas (forth). Open Access edited book, on Cancer Care. Shortly to be published by Palgrave McMillan’s International Series.
Kale, D. S. Srinivas, G. Banda (forth.) “Business Models in Diagnostics” in Banda, Mackintosh, Njeru, Sangere, Srinivas (forth). Open Access edited book, on Cancer Care. Shortly to be published by Palgrave McMillan’s International Series.
Evolutionary-Institutional Analysis and Industry-Based Methods in Social Policy
Book – Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South (Bristol University Press)
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A first chapter by Smita Srinivas, “Evolutionary-Institutional Analysis and Industry-Based Methods in Social Policy” is available shortly in the forthcoming book Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South, Bristol: Bristol University Press (Eds. Ilcheong Yi, Alexandra Kaasch, Kelly Stetter). The first chapter frames the big opportunities in acknowledging and fine-tuning industrial dynamism in social policy design. The chapter argues explicitly against situating social policy as exclusively a labour issue which has been the dominant way in which such policy design has continued. Instead, using the pandemic and other examples, the chapter explains why we should think of social policy and especially health policy in new ways. With a focus on industrial dynamics and its technological features, the chapter situates the need for new thinking and practicalities of health benefits. Using perspectives from evolutionary and institutional economics, the chapter discusses the industrial dynamics through institutional and spatial footprint of actual benefits: Three domains that are fast changing are identified: Place (residence-based) entitlements, Work (labour identity) and Workplace (factory, mobile, or other work) entitlements. Social policy can no longer afford to be narrowly anchored to labour identity alone, and the chapter offers some new theory and methods perspective on the way forward for policy design in economic development.
Cupboard Full, Cupboard Empty
Book – Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa (Title being finalised, Palgrave Macmillan)
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Three novel chapters, Cupboard Full, Cupboard Empty (Srinivas, forth.); Palliative Economics (Srinivas, Ghai, and Rajyadaksha, forth); and Business Models in Diagnostics (Kale, Srinivas and Banda forth.) are packed into this unique Open Access edited volume, with contributions to several other framing sections. Shortly to be published by Palgrave McMillan’s International Series, and covering contributions on India, Kenya, Tanzania with colleagues from East Africa, India, and the UK, this book (Banda, Mackintosh, Njeru and Srinivas (Eds.) has chapters of significance on the complex problem of cancer and its industrial foundations for diagnosis and treatment in lower and middle income countries. The chapters draw the reader’s attention to the critical industrial foundations of cancer care. The research is built on a mixed international team of economics, S&T policy, development studies, and public health, The book stems from the Innovations for Cancer Care in Africa project (ICCA) and the picture here is a temporary stand-in for the upcoming book cover.Anyone interested in cancer itself, the state of global healthcare and local health society, or how to make innovation and industrial policies work for better health outcomes, will find the book stimulating. Several theoretical and methods discussions also make this book relevant to scholars and practitioners studying complex development challenges.
A New Economics for Health
Book – Health of the Nation: Perspectives for a New India
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“It is a transformative fact today that most countries and their citizens draw on essential medicines and vaccines designed and manufactured and then traded across hundreds and often, thousands of miles. Health technologies include both mature and innovative products, in some cases, entirely disrupting patient experiences, the medical profession, and the organization of industries.
[…] A new economics for health focused on technological change and the evolutionary aspects of industrial organization in the health industry may therefore look different from health economics as we know it today.”
No Global South in Economic Development
Book – Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (Bhan, Srinivas, Watson Eds.)
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“My aim is to deepen the conversation about the title of the book, Companion to Planning in the Global South, and make two points. First, to caution that the ‘Global South’ label offers minimal analytical benefit as far as economic development plans are concerned, and what may appear to be the essential common empirical reality of developing countries is deceptive. This may help us better connect national contexts and development debates with what occurs in villages, towns, and cities. Post-colonial institutional contexts and global market pressures may simply be insufficient common conditions to make wider claims on what planning should do.”
Healthy Industries and Unhealthy Populations: Lessons from Indian Problem-Solving
Book – Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health. Read more about it here
“The Indian health industry, with substantial pharmaceuticals and bio-pharmaceuticals capability, has been called ‘Supplier to the World’. This industry has had three defining policy environments running from 1950 to 2000, the last of which is arguably still ongoing.
These three environments are distinct market environments, in which the range of market instruments used has been notable and the public gains to which they have been put have been noteworthy.”
Demand and Innovation: Paths to Inclusive Development
Book – Innovation in India: Combining Economic Growth with Inclusive Development
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“The world is so full of technological innovations, and countries such as India
have so many of them that we might be tempted to forget the genesis and effect of such innovations on ‘development.’ What kinds of inclusive societies can we plan for through such innovations? While most of the chapters in this book are concerned with knowledge and technology capability accumulation in different industrial sectors in India, this chapter starts at the other end, with questions: Whom is it for? How does it permeate our societies? Will it be enough? What analytical frames may help us?”