Economic Reform in India : Challenges, Prospects, and Lessons.

Economic Reform in India : Challenges, Prospects, and Lessons.

In this volume, leading economists assess India's economic performance, policies and institutions.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Hope, Nicholas C.
Other Authors: Kochar, Anjini, Noll, Roger, Srinivasan, T. N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Subjects:
Business and economics > Economic development.
Economic reform > India.
India > Economic policy > 1991-2016.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Nicholas C. Hope, Anjini Kochar, Roger Noll, and T.N. Srinivasan
  • The Macro Economy:
  • 2. Federalism and economic development in India: an assessment / Nirvikar K. Singh and T.N. Srinivasan;
  • 3. India and China: trade and foreign investment / Arvind Panagariya;
  • 4. Financial sector reforms and monetary policy: the Indian experience / Rakesh Mohan
  • Institutional Reforms: Agriculture and Education:
  • 5. Land reform, decentralized governance, and rural development in West Bengal / Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee;
  • 6. Market-driven agricultural growth: contrasting experiences in Punjab and Rajastham / Peter Hazell, Abhijit Sharma and Laurence Smith;
  • 7. . India's higher education opportunity / Naushad Forbes;
  • 8. Improving the quality of rural primary schools: an evaluation of a computer-aided learning program in south India / Verghese Jacob, Anjini Kochar, and Suresh Reddy
  • Employment, Industrial Structure and Poverty:
  • 9. The missing middle / Anne O. Kreuger;
  • 10. Some aspects of the trends in employment and unemployment in Bihar and Kerala since the 1790x / T.N. Srinivasan and Treb Allen;
  • 11. Size matters: urban growth and poverty in India, 1983-2005 / Peter Lanjouw and Rinku Murgai
  • Infrastructure: Electricity and Transportation:
  • 12. An assessment of Indian telecommunications reform / Roger Noll and Scott Wallsten;
  • 13. Managing demand-side economic and political constraints on electricity industry restructuring process / Frank A. Wolak;
  • 14. Moving India: the political economy of transport sector reform / Jessica S. Wallack and N.K. Singh.

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