It analyses the performance of the Indian economy during a decade of wide ranging economic reforms, which commenced in mid-1991, as compared to its behaviour in the eighties when some piecemeal measures of liberalization had been taken. The book comprehensively covers important aspects like GDP and Employment Growth. Human Development, Poverty Alleviation, Privatization, Savings and Investment (including foreign investment), Agriculture, Industry, Resource Mobilisation by the Government, Public Expenditure, Deficit Financing, External Debt, foreign Trade, Balance of Payments and Behaviour of Prices. A comparative study of economic growth in India and china during the reforms period has been made to draw some lessons from the Chinese experience. Inter-state disparities in development (incl. Rural and urban and gender disparities), and inter-state variations in public expenditure patterns and their implications, have also been analysed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K.D. Saksena
Keshava Dayal Saksea topped in M.A. (Economics), Lucknow University in 1957. Throughout first class, he won several academic distinctions. Was Ford Foundation Research Scholar, Delhi School of Economics/Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi from January 1958 to May 1961. Joined Indian Administrative Service on June 1, 1961. Held several senior positions I both the Central and State Governments including Adviser, Planning Commission, Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Textiles and Member, BIFR. Was Economic Planner, Bhutan in 1989 on a UNDP assignment. Work done by Saksena as Visiting Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, during 1984-85, published in the form of a book ‘Pricing Policies and Price Control in Developing Countries’ in 1986 simultaneously by Frances Pinter (Publishers), London and Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc., Colorado, USA, which was widely acclaimed. Subsequently, Shipra Publications published ‘Environmental Planning. Policies and Programmes in India’, a book written by him under an Nationas. In 1993 and another book ‘dynamics of India’s Textile Economy’ in 2002.
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