A Critical Decade

Policies for India's Development
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-808013-8
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

This volume brings together a selection of essays by serving economists/advisers at the senior level in various central ministries, regulatory bodies, and policy think-tanks. Promoting evidence-based public policymaking, the volume addresses medium-term policy imperatives for the Indian economy. Rich in data and analysis, the essays cover a wide range of themes including macroeconomic policy for sustaining high growth, sectoral polices for meeting the stated national
development goals, market reforms and sustainability, infrastructure development, and challenges of governance. While the focus is on domestic developments, contemporary global economic issues that have implications for the Indian economy are also addressed.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of development economics, economics, and Indian economy, as well as policymakers, financial and economic analysts, journalists, and general readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malhotra, Rajeev

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Foreword
Introduction
I. Macroeconomic Issues
1. Impossible Trinity Revisited: Lessons and Policy Implications for India and Other Emerging Economies
2. Fiscal Policy Imperatives: Changing the Focus of Union Budget
3. Is India's Inflation Inflated?
4. Is India's Real Effective Exchange Rate in Line with Economic Fundamentals
II. Market Reforms, Productivity, and Sustainability
5. Financial Sector Reforms: Refining the Architecture
6. Financial Inclusion in Rural Areas and Micro-Finance: Issues, Constraints, and Policy Options
7. Role of Competition Law and Policy in Making Markets Competitive
8. Does Privatization Lead to Benign Outcomes? The Indian Experience and Policy Lessons
9. Accelerating Manufacturing Growth: Promise of the New Manufacturing Policy and Beyond
10. Labour Laws: Are They Holding Back Manufacturing Sector Growth and Employment in India
11. Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Unleashing the Potential of the Informal Sector
12. Insurance as a Tool for Adaptation to Climate Change in India
III. Infrastructure, Institutions, and Governance: Some Challenges
13. Managing India's Demographic Dividend: Policy Challenges in Social and Urban Development
14. Social Protection for Inclusion
15. India's Road Concession Agreements: Issues, Challenges, Global Experiences, and Lessons
16. India's Free Trade Agreements: Is it the Way Forward?
17. Improving Public Service Delivery: Building a New Aadhar
Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Rajeev Malhotra is Economic Adviser, Office of the Finance Minister, Government of India. He is the principal author of the first National Human Development Report 2001 (Planning Commission and Oxford University Press, 2002).