Download or read book State Level Reforms Growth and Development in Indian States written by Arvind Panagariya and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most discussions of India's recent economic growth focus on progress and policies at the national level. But with a population of 1.2 billion, several of the states in India are larger than many of the countries in the world. Therefore, a more complete understanding of India's ongoing experiment in economic reforms requires a study at the state level. State Level Reforms, Growth, and Development in Indian States provides the first-ever comprehensive analysis of growth and reforms in the highly diverse states of the country. The authors argue that when the national government loosened its controls on industry and services, state governments began shaping the fortunes of their citizens through state-level policy reforms, resulting in faster growth in every state over the last decade than any other decade in the post-independence era. In fact, some of the poorest states, notably Bihar and Odisha, have been growing the fastest. Professors Panagariya and Chakraborty and Dr. Rao refute the common assumptions that growth has not occurred or that poverty has not been reduced in all Indian states. The recent reforms have also led to improved access in every state to basic amenities such as permanent houses, electricity, water, and sanitation. These accomplishments notwithstanding, regional inequality on a per capita basis has grown as well. The authors analyze the economic transformation that has taken place in the largest eighteen states of India and suggest reforms in areas of agriculture, industry, services and urbanization that can further accelerate this transformation. They also provide a comprehensive analysis of education and health in the states.
Download or read book State level Reforms in India written by Stephen Howes and published by MacMillan India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses a variety of topics related to fiscal and governance reform from a range of perspectives political, bureaucratic and academic, Indian and foreign, state and national.
Download or read book State Level Reforms and Growth and Development in Indian States written by Arvind Panagariya and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a population of 1.2 billion, India is many countries. Ten of its states have populations equalling or exceeding that of the United Kingdom. Therefore, to fully understand the current experiment in economic reforms in the country, it must be studied it at the level of the state. In this spirit, the present book provides an analysis of how the national reforms have shaped the economies of different states in India.
Download or read book Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India written by Rob Jenkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes issue with existing theories of the relationship between democracy and economic liberalisation.
Download or read book Issues in Local Government Reform in India written by Nirvikar Singh and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reforms and Economic Transformation in India written by Jagdish Bhagwati and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies. In this book, nine original essays pursue three interrelated themes: Why the movement of workers out of agriculture, into industry and services, and from informal to formal employments has been slow, explaining the impact the reforms have had on profitability and competition among enterprises,and analyzing the impact on the socially disadvantaged in terms of wage and education outcomes and entrepreneurship.
Download or read book Economic Reform and Social Sector Development written by K Seeta Prabhu and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2001-12-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the repercussions of economic reform on the social sector in India. This has been an issue of debate in all countries of South Asia, which are characterised by a large population of poor, illiterate, and malnourished. Studying the two states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, the book features analysis conducted both at the macro and micro levels, including centre, state, district, village and household level data. Divided into four parts, the chapters covers . The setting within which the analysis is conducted . The structural conditions governing social policy at the all-India and state-level prior to economic reform . The post-reform period, including a review of economic conditions and social sector expenditure at the level of the union government, the two states, and the districts . A detailed picture of the infrastructure of the selected villages in the two states
Download or read book State Level Fiscal Reforms in the Indian Economy Set in 2 Volumes written by D. K. Srivastava and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at one of the technical sessions of the 85th Annual Conference of Indian Economic Association at Trivandrum, India in 2003 on fiscal performance of Indian states.
Download or read book Economic Reform and the Liberalisation of the Indian Economy written by Richard Tregurtha Shand and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after the implementation of the initial wave of economic reforms in India, the process of transforming the country into a fully developed market economy continues. A hallmark of the globalised economy is its ability to sustain competitive efficiency which, in turn, can lead to enhanced growth. This important new book gauges how far India has been successful in achieving this goal by implementing the correct economic reform measures. There is a severe lack of solid analytical evidence or rigorous scientific studies on the success of India's economic reforms. The expert authors attempt to redress this imbalance with a thorough analysis of key aspects of the state of the Indian economy since 1991. Keeping poverty reduction as the major objective, they comprehensively discuss and identify further reform measures which are vital in the monetary, fiscal and agriculture sectors in order to maintain and improve the momentum of growth. When compared with East Asian countries including China, India's lacklustre growth performance indicates that the task of reform is far from over. The authors argue that India needs to pursue its reform process much more vigorously at both the central and state levels in order to achieve its full growth potential. Providing a comprehensive assessment of the impact of economic reforms in India, this book will appeal to policymakers, researchers and students with an interest in developing economies. Political scientists as well as economists in the fields of liberalisation and international development will also find this an engaging and enlightening volume.
Download or read book State Level Fiscal Reforms in India written by K. K. George and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Level Fiscal Reforms in India written by Ratna Vadra and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian economy has undergone a paradigm shift and moved towards market-oriented reforms through deregulation, liberalisation and openness of the economy leading to a higher rate of economic growth. However, the sub-national fiscal reforms did not respond to the reform programme with similar effort and enthusiasm. The present paper critically examines Indian states have approached the process of fiscal management reform. The main purpose of the paper is to study the major issues governing state level fiscal reforms in India. This paper aims both to share the major state-level fiscal reforms in India to date, and to suggest what more can be done to speed up the reforms.
Download or read book State Fiscal Reforms in India written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following two decades of relatively rapid growth, and a decade of liberalization, there is growing confidence within India, as well as internationally, about the state of the economy, and India's development potential. Nonetheless, and particularly since the late nineties, when India's states experienced a sharp fiscal deterioration, they have faced a squeeze on development spending, particularly acute in the poorer ones. In response, most state governments embarked on fiscal reforms, aimed at reducing deficits, and enabling effective interventions in priority areas. States in India play an increasingly important role in devising, and implementing policies to stimulate economic growth, and promote human development. But the performance of India's states is increasingly divergent, State deficits and debt levels rose sharply in the late nineties, and off-budget liabilities also increased rapidly. This sharp fiscal deterioration gave rise to state-level fiscal adjustment efforts, which in recent years have shown some signs of improved fiscal performance. Concerns about the level, and composition of fiscal deficits remain. The report states that a halt in reforms would endanger the states quality and quantity of productive expenditures, while debt levels would steadily build. It reviews expenditure reforms - particularly salaries, at the core of expenditure restructuring - and, pensions as a rapidly-mounting liability, which can be contained by parametric reforms, and longer-term structural reforms, while also examines subsidies, exemplifying the difficulties involved in reforming subsidy regimes. Regarding power sector reforms, commercial discipline should be a top priority. Public enterprise reforms are outlined, suggesting that while immediate fiscal gains may not be achieved, such reforms will prevent future budgetary support from keeping loss-making enterprises afloat. On examining revenue reforms, the report indicates these are essential to reduce fiscal imbalances, suggesting the elimination of tax on inter-state exports is critical, and should proceed with, or without the value-added tax (VAT), specifying tax administration reforms are perhaps more important than tax reforms. On strengthening the fiscal federal framework, it is recommended States need more flexibility to borrow, but under a centrally-imposed aggregate borrowing cap. Three institutional reform would therefore help fiscal federalism in India: Finance Commission as a permanent body; entru...
Download or read book State level Fiscal Reforms in India written by R. Sthanumoorthy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian states today are reeling under the impact of their economic position a problem they face due to the ballooning of revenues and fiscal deficits. This has resulted in the debt stock and interest liabilities of almost all the states increasing at a fa
Download or read book The State and Poverty in India written by Kohli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the role of government in eradicating India's rural poverty raises a whole series of crucial contemporary issues relating to the state, its degree of autonomy in the developing world and the problems of effecting genuine redistributive reform. The particular importance of the book is that it focuses attention on the nature of ruling political parties as an important factor influencing the success or failure of redistributive and welfare politics in a democratic capitalist setting. Dr Kohli compares in detail three state-level Indian governments of the late seventies: Communist-ruled West Bengal, Karnataka under the Congress Party, and Uttar Pradesh under the Janata Party. Comparing these in terms of their success in redistributing agricultural land and creating employment for the rural poor, the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government - like that in West Bengal - are the most effective in implementing reform.
Download or read book India Transformed written by Rakesh Mohan and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commemorative volume, India's top business leaders and economic luminaries come together to provide a balanced picture of the consequences of the country’s economic reforms, which were initiated in 1991. What were the reforms? What were they intended for? How have they affected the overall functioning of the economy? With contributions from Mukesh Ambani, Narayana Murthy, Sunil Mittal, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Shivshankar Menon, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, T.N. Ninan, Sanjaya Baru, Naushad Forbes, Omkar Goswami and R. Gopalakrishnan, India Transformed delves deep into the life of an economically liberalized India through the eyes of the people who helped transform it.
Download or read book Problems in the Implementation of Economic Reforms at the State Level written by R. Venkatesan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unshackling India written by Ajay Chhibber and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As India enters its seventy-fifth year of independence, conventional policy is unlikely to combat the breadth of its economic challenges. Across a range of areas-human capital, technology, agriculture, finance, trade, public service delivery and more-new ideas must now be on the table. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only cost India many lives and livelihoods, it has also exposed major structural weaknesses in the economy. A huge farm and jobs crisis, rising and massive inequalities, tepid investment growth, and chronic banking sector challenges have plagued the economy, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has also exposed the limitations of the Indian state, which tries to control too much-and ends up stifling the economy and the inherent energies of its young population. Climate change is no longer a distant threat, while disruptive technology has huge implications for India's demographic dividend. In addition, the dangerous lurch towards majoritarianism will cast its shadow on India's pursuit of prosperity for all. Unshackling India examines the question: Can India use the next twenty-five years, when it will reach the hundredth year of independence, to restructure not only its economy but rejuvenate its democratic energy and unshackle its potential-to become a genuinely developed economy by 2047? The book argues that India can foster a prosperous and inclusive economy if it sets its mind to it, acknowledges the hard truths, and lays out the clear choices and new ideas India must adopt towards that end.
