The book brings together a number of interesting research papers on the important issue of economic reforms formulated and implemented in India since 1991. The authors include eminent experts and research scholars in the academic and other fields. The papers discuss thoroughly and critically many important macro and micro level aspects of the reforms and underline the need for modifications of the reforms. The areas covered in the book include agriculture, industry, non-farm, power, power loom, banking, External and other sectors, growth and poverty, food security, globalization and trade union movements, etc. Valuable suggestions are presented with regard to policy formulations and practical implementation of the reforms. The papers included here are the revised and updated versions presented at a National Seminar on “A decade of economic reforms in India: Retrospect and prospect†held at Nagarjuna University, Guntur, A.P. In order to make this a compact and meaningful volume, an overview has also been added. The volume is highly useful to students, teachers, researchers and policy makers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR C. Narasimha Rao
Prof. C. Narasimha Rao, Presently heading the center for Scientific Socialism and Department of Rural Development at Nagarjuna University, A.P. has taken his post Graduate degree in economics from Andhra University, Waltair. He obtained Doctoral degree in Political Economy from the Institute of Economics, Kiev, of the erthwhile USR, Presently the capital city of Ukraine. Professor Rao has so far organized Twelve National seminars as director. He participated and presented papers in several National and International seminars and contributed significantly to the knowledge in the subject. He edited and published four books and this would be the fifth volume. Prof. Rao has also published twenty five papers in various journals and eight research degrees were awarded under his guidance. He extensively toured most of the European countries including Poland, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Belgium etc. and gained first hand knowledge and rich experience about the socio-politico economic conditions of those countries.
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