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India launched a programme of economic policy reforms in response to a fiscal and balance of payments crisis in July 1991. These reforms of the 1990 were much wider and deeper than the halting liberalization of the 1980s. This book presents a systematic assessment of the progress of reforms in different policy areas and of the politics involved, both at the central and state levels. It takes stock of what has been achieved, what remains undone, and develops ...
For the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty in the world’s most desperate nations. But how can we shop the cycle of bad health, bad debt and bad luck that holds back more than a billion people? Jeffrey D. Sachs, Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and ‘probably the most important economist in the world’ (The New York Times) has the answers. He has traveled and worked in over 1000 countries across ...