India: The Emerging GiantOxford University Press, 30 avr. 2010 - 546 pages India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no comprehensive account of India's remarkable growth or the role policy has played in fueling this expansion. India: The Emerging Giant fills this gap, shedding light on one of the most successful experiments in economic development in modern history. Why did the early promise of the Indian economy not materialize and what led to its eventual turnaround? What policy initiatives have been undertaken in the last twenty years and how do they relate to the upward shift in the growth rate? What must be done to push the growth rate to double-digit levels? To answer these crucial questions, Arvind Panagariya offers a brilliant analysis of India's economy over the last fifty years--from the promising start in the 1950s, to the near debacle of the 1970s (when India came to be regarded as a "basket case"), to the phenomenal about face of the last two decades. The author illuminates the ways that government policies have promoted economic growth (or, in the case of Indira Gandhi's policies, economic stagnation), and offers insightful discussions of such key topics as poverty and inequality, tax reform, telecommunications (perhaps the single most important success story), agriculture and transportation, and the government's role in health, education, and sanitation. The dramatic change in the fortunes of 1.1 billion people has, not surprisingly, generated tremendous interest in the economy of India. Arvind Panagariya offers the first major account of how this has come about and what more India must do to sustain its rapid growth and alleviate poverty. It will be must reading for everyone interested in modern India, foreign affairs, or the world economy. |
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Takeoff under a Liberal Regime | |
Socialism Strikes with a Vengeance | |
Liberalization by Stealth | |
Triumph of Liberalization | |
India and the Republic of Korea | |
The Human Face of Reforms | |
Walking on Two Legs | |
Modernizing Agriculture | |
Toward a Uniform Goods and Services | |
Tackling Subsidies and Reforming the Civil Service | |
Contrasting | |
A Solvable Problem | |
Can | |
Expenditures or Transfers? | |
A Lesser Problem | |
Is a Crisis around the Corner? | |
On the Road to Capital Account | |
Why Not Privatize the Banks? | |
Carrying Liberalization Forward | |
Industrial Policy 1990 | |
Deriving the SavingsInvestment Identity | |
References | |
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agriculture Andhra Pradesh areas assets BSNL budget capital capital account convertibility central government chapter China Committee companies countries crisis current account debt decline Delhi discussion distribution domestic economic efficiency electricity employees equity exchange rate expansion expenditures exports farmers firms fiscal deficit foreign exchange foreign investment Gandhi Government of India Green Revolution growth rate higher education imports income increased indirect taxes industry inequality infrastructure inputs institutions IRDA issue Korea labor land liberalization licensing macroeconomic major Manmohan Singh manufacturing million rupees minister MRTP Mumbai Nehru operate Panagariya percent period phase Plan political poor poverty line poverty reduction private sector proportion public sector Rajiv Gandhi ratio reforms regime regulations regulatory reserves revenue rural savings sector banks share subsidy substantial tariff telecommunications trade universities urban workers World Bank