Economic Reform in India
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Economic Reform in India

Challenges, Prospects, and Lessons

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Economic Reform in India

Challenges, Prospects, and Lessons

About this book

The essays in this volume are written by leading economists working on the Indian economy. They collectively emphasize the importance of policies and institutions for sustained growth and poverty reduction, stressing that the success of sector-specific policies is vitally dependent on the nature of markets and the functioning of institutions such as those charged with regulating and overseeing critical sectors. Individual contributions assess the role of Indian government policy in key sectors and emphasize the policies required to ensure improvements in these sectors. The first section discusses aspects of the macro economy; the second deals with agriculture and social sectors; the third with jobs and how labor markets function in agriculture, industry and services; and the fourth with infrastructure services, specifically electricity, telecommunications and transport. The essays are drawn from the most influential papers presented in recent years on Indian economic policy at the Stanford Center for International Development.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. 1 Introduction
  5. The Macro Economy
  6. 2 Federalism and Economic Development in India: An Assessment
  7. 3 India and China: Trade and Foreign Investment
  8. 4 Financial Sector Reforms and Monetary Policy: The Indian Experience
  9. Institutional Reforms: Agriculture and Education
  10. 5 Land Reform, Decentralized Governance, and Rural Development in West Bengal
  11. 6 Market-Driven Agricultural Growth: Contrasting Experiences in Punjab and Rajasthan
  12. 7 India’s Higher Education Opportunity
  13. 8 Improving the Quality of Rural Primary Schools: An Evaluation of a Computer-Aided Learning Program in South India
  14. Employment, Industrial Structure, and Poverty
  15. 9 The Missing Middle
  16. 10 Some Aspects of the Trends in Employment and Unemployment in Bihar and Kerala since the 1970s
  17. 11 Size Matters: Urban Growth and Poverty in India, 1983–2005
  18. Infrastructure: Electricity and Transportation
  19. 12 An Assessment of Indian Telecommunications Reform
  20. 13 Managing Demand-Side Economic and Political Constraints on Electricity Industry Restructuring Processes
  21. 14 Moving India: The Political Economy of Transport Sector Reform
  22. Index