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Shobha Raghuram is a development writer. She is trained in philosophy and applied development studies. She did her post-doctoral research in philosophy and epistemology at the University of Sorbonne, Paris and subsequently worked at the Centre for the Study of Development Studies, Delhi on sociology of science before joining Hivos Regional office, India. She was director between 2002 and 2007. She has returned to full time research apart from being a development consultant. She has been advisor to WHO and UNDP, and visiting senior fellow at the Centre for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Development, the Advisory Council of the Sustainable Futures Academy, Salzburg apart from many other public interest bodies. She is currently working on her book, Rethinking Development: The Politics of Social Change.
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Posco's $12 billion Orissa project gets conditional nod, Headlines India, 31 January 2011, http://headlinesindia.mapsofindia.com/burning-issues-news/posco-case/poscos-12-billion-orissa-project-gets-conditional-nod-74353.html. At the plant activist Mr Sahu said, ‘We don’t want to disturb a well-established agrarian economy of the region. We don’t oppose industrialisation. But it should not happen at the cost of the agriculture economy’, ‘PPSS has closed down check gates. Posco officials, police and the administration will not be allowed to come inside the proposed acquisition area’. http://www.moneylife.in/article/posco-indias-challenges-not-yet-over-activists-to-resist-land-acquisition-in-orissa/13722.html.
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Raghuram, S. Sustainable Development: The citizen's predicament. Development 54, 143–146 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.30
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