Rajiv Kumar
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Topical and well-researched, this collection provides a comprehensive assessment of SAARC and provides policy directives for the future. The book points out the issues and constraints that have hindered regional cooperation in South Asia. It establishes that despite being democracies, there has been little effort by member nations to promote regional cooperation in the public domain.
It stresses that in view of the increased role that countries wish to play in ...
Reconnecting Britain and India: Ideas for an Enhanced Partnership seeks to survey the main features of a diverse and complex bilateral relationship. As the shadows of the colonial period fade into history, this book aims to analyse the scope for a new relationship that recognises the role the UK can play in India’s quest for international stature. Original essays from more than three dozen thought-leaders from the worlds of academia, business, politics and ...
Section 1. Drivers and scenarios. Section 2. The defining of drivers and evolution of scenarios of issues affecting the world.Section 3. Macro scenarios.Section 4. National objectives.
This book reviews India's liberalisation measures in the last decade, in cognisance of the impact of the country's World Trade Organization (WTO) Membership on the same. The collection of articles by subject experts recognises that the changes mandated by WTO membership are but one of the three-pronged liberalisation measures that the country has been subjected to--in the external, domestic (industrial policies) and financial sectors. The lucid analyses bear out ...
The Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy projects a mild slowdown of the economy to 9.2 per cent GDP growth in 2007-08 from 9.4 per cent in 2006-07 and a likely further slowdown in 2008-09. The author finds the economy on the limits of its potential growth and advocates structural reforms to raise its potential growth rate. While the economy has followed the unconventional path of services overtaking industry, there is some evidence of the resurgence of ...
India and the Global Economy is a collection of specially commissioned papers for ICRIER's silver jubilee conference. The papers, prepared by a number of eminent policy makers, academicians and senior industry representatives, address important policy challenges facing India today as the country intensifies its engagement with the global economy. The inaugural address by the Hon'ble Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, covers the entire range of reform issues and ...