The Roma Response to Development Strategies: A Replicate Model for Collective Action and Inclusive Development in a Hungarian Village

Malay Mishra () and Gopalakrishnan Karunanithi
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Malay Mishra: Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest
Gopalakrishnan Karunanithi: School of Social Sciences & Languages, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Society and Economy, 2017, vol. 39, issue 1, 65-84

Abstract: The paper deals with seminal changes in the socio-economic life of the Roma community in the village of Cserdi in Hungary, brought about by a host of strategic programs of a dynamic Roma Mayor. It suggests several measures to develop a viable development model by consolidating his programs with a few modifi cations to suit the Roma, who constitute the majority population in the village, as well as their counterparts living elsewhere in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe. It also illustrates how such a model has proven to be a successful strategy in developing and empowering marginalized groups in India, while arguing its effi cacy for the Roma situation in Hungary.

Keywords: greenhouse cultivation; empowerment; self-help group; microcredit; microenter-prise; National Roma Integration Strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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