India: The Emerging Giant

Couverture
Oxford 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.
 

Table des matières

Introduction
Distinguishing Four Phases
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
Index
Droits d'auteur

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Expressions et termes fréquents

À propos de l'auteur (2010)

Arvind Panagariya is Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy and Professor of Economics in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Informations bibliographiques