Navigating Indian Economic Policy

Dealing with the 21st Century Challenges
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-03885-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This volume examines the 21st century challenges facing India and explores how the country can adopt a development approach capable of addressing these complex issues. It makes an integrated effort to mainstream social and environmental challenges in economic policy-making, offering a contemporary critical scrutiny of major issues emerging from India's development experience of over 75 years since Independence in 1947.

The book covers nearly all significant aspects of the Indian economy, including growth and development, poverty, inequality, human development, public policy, environment and biodiversity, and external economic relations. From a policy perspective, it encompasses both an assessment of existing and past policies as well as prescriptions for the future. Based on current and new datasets, the analysis moves beyond India's initial planned economic development model with its emphasis on the public sector to address the evolving realities of contemporary India.

This volume will serve as a valuable resource for students, researchers, policy makers, and general readers interested in economics, development studies, policy management, public finance, and South Asian studies. It offers essential insights for anyone seeking to understand India's development trajectory and the policy challenges that lie ahead.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutta, Arijita

Nanda, Nitya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. Section I. Growth and Development Experiences — 1. The Binding Constraints on Growth and Employment in India during the Post-Liberalization Period; 2. Agricultural Sector in India: Asking for thorough reforms; 3. State, Food Sovereignty, and Food Security: The Case of India's Food Security Act; 4. Structural Change in the Indian Economy: Was it a case of service-export-led growth?; 5. Post-reform Trend and Pattern of Rural non-farm employment in India; 6. Challenges facing the Indian Economy: The Macroeconomic Reality of the Black Economy. Section II. Public Policy Issues in India — 7. Redistributive effect of Goods and Service Taxes (GST) and Transfers on Household Consumption Expenditure in India; 8. Inflation Targeting in India: Some Questions; 9. Monetary Policy in Uncertain Times: The Indian Experience; 10. Changing Dynamics of Centre-State Fiscal Relations. Section III. External Sector of the Indian Economy — 11. Assessing the Feasibility of De-dollarization and the Quest for Alternatives; 12. Foreign Direct Investment flows and Roundtripping: The Indian Case. Section IV. Labour and Labour Market — 13. Political Economy of Labour Law Reforms in India; 14. Work and Identity: Mapping Caste and Gender Segregation in Indian Labour Markets. Section V. Human Development Issues — 15. Healthcare Financing in times of Universal Health Coverage; 16. Financing the Right to Education: Normative Requirements and the Challenges it faces; 17. Tuberculosis in India: facility choice and cost of treatment; 18. Public Sanitation Programme in Rural India: A Critical View. Section VI. Poverty and Inequality — 19. The Change in Multi-Dimensional Deprivation of various Social Groups in India: Post-Liberalization Period; 20. Have Caste-Based Wage Inequalities Changed in Indian Labour Market in the Post-COVID Era? Insights from PLFS Data; 21. State as the Provider of Distributive Justice: Formative Ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, 1928-31; 22. Care work – why is it important to integrate the concept in economic policymaking? Section VII. Environment and Biodiversity — 23. Augmenting biodiversity in India: some economic dimensions; 24. Productivity, Welfare, and Climate Change: A Case for People Centric Planning. Bibliography. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Arijita Dutta is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Urban Economic Studies, University of Calcutta. She is an alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata, CESP, JNU and University of Calcutta. Her research interest lies is Health Economics, Quantitative Development Economics, Labour Economics, Gender Economics and Economics of Entrepreneurship. She has been closely associated with health policy evaluation for the state of West Bengal and has published policy documents on health care in West Bengal. She is also engaged in action research on women entrepreneurs and is currently associated with the global project of Empowering Women Globally as a knowledge partner. She has taught in a number of foreign Universities and has been a visiting professor at University of Le Havre, France; UNU Merit, Maastricht, the Netherlands; ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany and Yamaguchi University, Japan.

Nitya Nanda is an economist and a public policy analyst with about three decades of experience in research, consulting and teaching. Currently, he is a professor at the Council for Social Development, a social science think tank based in New Delhi. Earlier he was with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), CUTS International and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He received his education at the University of Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently he works majorly on social development and social protection issues but his areas of interest also include international trade, industrialization, and energy and environment issues. Apart from many papers in national and international journals. He has  authored and edited several volumes, including Expanding Frontiers of Global Trade Rules (2009), Hydro-Politics in GBM Basin (2015), India’s Resource Security (2018), and India’s Industrial Policy and Performance (2021).

Surajit Das has completed MA in 2000, MPhil in 2002 and PhD in 2010 from CESP, JNU. He is currently an assistant professor at CESP, JNU since 2013. Before that he has worked in Ambedkar University Delhi, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Kerala State Planning Board, Planning Commission and in the 12th Finance Commission of India. Dr. Das has published various articles in national and international journals and participated in various national and international conferences. His areas of interest includes macroeconomics, applied econometrics, fiscal and monetary policy, human development etc.

Sharat Kumar is an M.A. and Ph. D in Economics. He belongs to the first batch of students who passed out from the CESP. He began his career as a lecturer-in-economics and later joined the Indian Economic Service. He has worked in the Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He superannuated as Senior Economic Adviser, Government of India. He also served for a brief period as Reader-in-Economics at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy, Mussoorie. Instrumental in Afghanistan’s development project, he represented India at the Commission of Social Development, United Nations in 2001. He has published articles in various reputed journals and has to his credit seven books