India Policy Forum 2008-09

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-81-321-0149-9
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: India Policy Forum

India Policy Forum 2008-09 (Volume 5) comprises papers and highlights of the discussions from the fifth India Policy Forum (IPF) conference, held on July 15-16, 2008, in New Delhi. The annual examines India's reforms and economic transition using policy-relevant empirical research. It generates theoretically rigorous and empirically informed research on important current and unfolding issues of Indian economic policy.

The first paper examines the growth of private schools in India and their influence on the quality of education being imparted. It is an extension of the recent issues of this journal that have evaluated the performance of India's education system. The second paper addresses the major question of why the growth of manufacturing output and employment in India has been disappointingly low. The final three papers share a common focus on India's external financial relations. The third paper analyzes the process of capital account liberalization and the integration of India's financial institutions into the global financial system. The fourth paper measures the evolution of prices in the nontradable and tradable sectors of the Indian economy and seeks explanations for the rise in the relative price of nontradables. The last paper addresses the issue of the adequacy of India's current foreign exchange reserves.

The volume would be useful to researchers and policy-makers in the fields of economics, policy studies, development studies, and political economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bery, Suman

Bosworth, Barry

Panagariya, Arvind

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Private Schooling in India; A new Educational Landscape - Sonalde Desai, Amaresh Dubey, Reeve Vanneman and Rukmini Banerji
Comments by Kaushik Basu and Abhijit Banerji
Big Reforms but Small Payoffs: Explaining the Weak Record of Growth in Indian Manufacturing - Poonam Gupta, Rana Hasan and Utsav Kumar
Comments by T N Srinivasan and Rajiv Kumar
Some New Perspectives on India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization - Eswar S Prasad
Comments by John Williamson and Partha Sen
What Explains India's Real Appreciation? - Renu Kohli and Sudip Mohapatra
Comments by Robert Lawrence and Sisira Jayasuriya
The Cost of Holding Excess Reserves: Evidence from India - Abhijit Sen Gupta
Comments by Kenneth Kletzer and Vijay Joshi

Über Autor(innen)

Bosworth, Barry
Barry Bosworth, Senior fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C

Panagariya, Arvind
Arvind Panagariya is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He has been the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He has also worked for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in various capacities. His books include India: The Emerging Giant(2008) and The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreement(coedited with JagdishBhagwati, 1996).

Bery, Suman
Suman Bery is Chief Economist, Shell International, based in The Hague, Netherlands. He assumed this position on 1 February 2012.

Mr Bery served as Director-General (Chief Executive) of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, from January 2001 to March 2011. NCAER is one of India’s leading independent policy research institutions. He then served as Country Director-India Central, the International Growth Centre (IGC). The IGC is a research initiative of UK Aid in partnership with the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. In this capacity he was responsible for setting up the IGC’s New Delhi office in partnership with the Indian Statistical Institute’s Delhi centre.

Prior to NCAER, Mr Bery was with the World Bank in Washington, D.C. From 1992 to 1994, on leave from the World Bank, Mr Bery worked as Special Consultant to the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay, where he advised the Governor and Deputy Governors on financial sector policy, institutional reform, and market development and regulation.

Mr Bery completed his undergraduate work at Magdalen College, University of Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and holds a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.