India Policy Forum 2015-16

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-93-86062-08-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 353 g

The India Policy Forum (IPF) is organized by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in New Delhi. It aims to examine India’s economic reforms and its economic transition using policy-relevant empirical research. The IPF comprises an annual international conference in July in New Delhi and the IPF Volume that brings together the conference papers. These papers undergo detailed revisions after the conference based on discussants’ comments at the IPF and the guidance provided by the editors.

This book comprises papers and highlights of the discussions from the Twelfth India Policy Forum Conference held on 14–15 July 2015. In particular, this volume of IPF focuses on inflation that has emerged as a leading concern in India. By early 2015 the inflation rate had fallen to 5.2 percent, leading to questions both about how to explain movements in India’s inflation, and whether this more recent moderation under the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) led by Raghuram Rajan was likely to endure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shah, Shekhar

Gokarn, Subir

Muralidharan, Karthik

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

EDITORS’ SUMMARY
Understanding Inflation in India - Laurence Ball, Anusha Chari, and Prachi Mishra
Comments - Pami Dua and Kenneth Kletzer
General Discussion
Tyranny of the Status Quo: The Challenges of Reforming the Indian Tax System - M Govinda Rao
Comments - Ashok Lahiri and Mihir Desai
General Discussion
India’s Primary Energy Evolution: Past Trends and Future Prospects - Kaushik Deb and Paul Appleby
Comments - Navroz K. Dubash and Anupam Khanna
General Discussion
Foreign Currency Borrowing by Indian Firms: Toward a New Policy Framework - Ila Patnaik, Ajay Shah, and Nirvikar Singh
Comments - Rajnish Mehra and Tarun Ramadorai
General Discussion
A New Approach to Public Sector Hiring in India for Improved Service Delivery - Karthik Muralidharan
Comments - Devesh Kapur, T. V. Somanathan, and Manish Sabharwal
General Discussion

Über Autor(innen)

Muralidharan, Karthik
Karthik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at NCAER

Gokarn, Subir
Subir Gokarn is a Director, Brookings Institution New Delhi, India. He is a former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and an expert on fiscal and monitory policy, economic growth, capital formation, and social security.

Shah, Shekhar
Shekhar Shah is a former Director-General of NCAER, India’s oldest and largest economic think tank. Prior to NCAER, he was the World Bank’s Regional Economic Adviser for South Asia. He has worked in the financial services sector in Washington D.C. and has been the Ford Foundation’s Program Officer for International Economics for South Asia. Shekhar joined the World Bank in 1989, where he was also a principal author of the 2004 World Development Report. He has published on a range of issues relating to service delivery, governance, poverty, international trade, social policy, and monitoring and evaluation. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University.