Maharashtra Economy: Performance, Opportunities and Challenges

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This book is aimed at evaluating the economic performance of Maharashtra, India, and brings to light the current challenges the state is facing and new opportunities available to the state. Maharashtra has been the main economic powerhouse of India. It is a leading industrial state in India with good infrastructure network. The state large urban population and growing services sector provide opportunities for investment in tourism, information technology, leisure, bio-technology and entertainment industries. The state has also achieved good progress on the human development front.Despite this progress, since the second half of the 90s the state has been witnessing economic decline. This is attributed to the deceleration of industrial and public investment and relative neglect of agriculture. It is hoped that this book will be of great use to the state government, policy-makers, academia and the corporate sector.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Sthanumoorthy

R Sthanumoorthy holds a PhD from Madras School of Economics, Chennai, in the field of public finance. Presently, he is working as a Faculty at IIM Kozhikode. Earlier, he was working as a Faculty Member-Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Center, Chennai. His research interests are in taxation, competition among the governments in setting economic and fiscal policies, new institutional economics, political economy of economic reforms, and Indian software industry. He has around five years of research experience and published research papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited books, business magazines and financial dailies. He has also presented research papers in various national conferences and has conducted seminars.