India-The Political Economy of Reforms

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This book is a collection of seminar papers about the political economy of reforms in India. There is general consensus that the first generation of reforms (concerning primarily the external sector) are over and to take the Indian economy to a higher growth trajectory, one should move on to the second generation, interpreted variously as the domestic sector or state-level reforms. This is where the political economy of resistance takes over and resistance also concerns some amount of stock taking about what the first decade of reforms has achieved. In particular, other than overall issues, the papers in this volume address decentralization, poverty, agriculture, food security, infrastructure (power), the financial sector, Small-Scale Industry, labour markets, regional disparities and countervailing pressure exerted by citizen groups. In the process, the pending agenda is also set out. The book should be of interest to all those interested in Indian economic policy formulation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bibek Debroy

Bibek Debroy is Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS), Rajive Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi. He is a professional economist and was educated in Presidency College (Calcutta), Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College (Chambridge). He has worked at Presidency College (Calcutta), Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Pune), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Delhi), National Council of Applied Economic Research (Delhi) and as consultant, Department of Economic affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He was also the Director for a project known as LARGE, set up by the Ministry of Finance and UNDP to Consulting Editor with Financial Express. Bibek Debroy's special interests are international trade in particular the WTOI, law reform and the political economy of liberalization in India. He has been listed in many bibliographies and has been a member of several government committees.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rahul Mukherji

Rahul Mukherji is Associate Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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Title
India-The Political Economy of Reforms
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Edition
1st ed.
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8185040834
Length
viii+395p.
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