The Indian Economy

Issues, Policies and Performance
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-61921-7
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

This book provides a detailed structured analysis of the transition that has taken place in the Indian economy since independence to the present times (including the period of COVID-19 pandemic). Analysing objectives, achievements and failure of planning, the book discusses the crisis in the late 1980s, followed by economic reforms – structural changes and stabilization policies implemented along with regional variation on the development pattern across states.

The book also examines policies of distribution, poverty, inequality, and unemployment, reform measures in major sectors, namely, banking or financial sector in general, tax or fiscal policy, external or trade and exchange rate policy. This volume will be useful for students, researchers and faculty working in the field of economics, development studies, political science and public administration. The book will also be an invaluable companion to policymakers looking for a thorough and compact view of the transition in the Indian economic situation and the resulting policy changes which took place since India’s independence.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhattacharyya, Rajib

Ghosh Dastidar, Ananya

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures x

List of tables xii

Foreword xiv

Preface xvi

Acknowledgements xviii

List of abbreviations xix

Introduction 1

1 Economic Development since Independence 8

2 Planning: Overall Perspective and Evaluation 27

3 Population and Human Development 52

4 Growth, Employment and Regional Variation 75

5 Agriculture 98

6 Industry 127

7 Services Sector in India 159

8 Development of Infrastructural Sector in India 176

9 Economic Reforms 190

10 Indian Economy in International Perspective 241

11 COVID-19

Pandemic: Impact and Policy Implications 258

Index 274

Über Autor(innen)

Rajib Bhattacharyya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration, Kolkata, India, with more than 20 years of teaching experience. His fields of interests are International Trade, Finance and Development Economics. He has contributed and edited several articles in national and international journals/books, namely, IGI Global, Emerald, Routledge and Springer.

Ananya Ghosh Dastidar is Professor and Head, Department of Finance and Business Economics and Dean, FASSH, University of Delhi. An alumnus of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and CESP, JNU, she has over 20 years of teaching experience, supervised several MPhil and PhD theses, and her research interests lie in the area of International Economics and the Economics of Development.