Understanding Reforms

Post-1991 India
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-808558-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 727 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

This book reviews the background, context, and timing of the economic reforms since July 1991 to showcase the fascinating details on the results achieved in the last twenty years. The authors critically analyse the growth strategy under Nehruvian socialism and the slow growth rate of the Indian economy and, thus, draw attention to the factors that led to reforms. The authors also describe how reforms were sustained in a low-income economy with large diversities and how they successfully survived the emergence of several coalition governments at the Centre as well as the increasing regionalization of Indian politics.

This book shows how reforms unleashed India's latent entrepreneurship through increasingly liberalized competitive markets and enabled faster and sustained economic growth. It takes stock of specific reforms initiatives undertaken by the government. This paperback edition includes updates on reforms undertaken in the past five years; a tribute to Suresh D. Tendulkar; and a new preface.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tendulkar, Late Suresh

Bhavani

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Tables and Figures

- Preface to the Paperback Edition

- Preface and Acknowledgements

- Tribute to Suresh D. Tendulkar

- 1: Questions in the Post-1991 Reforms Process

- 2: The Analytical Framework

- 3: The Development Strategy after Independence

- 4: The Slow-growth Phase: 1950-1 to 1980-1

- 5: The Decade of the 1980s

- 6: The 1991 Reforms: Context and Timing

- 7: Continuing Reforms in the Era of Coalition Politics

- 8: The Political Economy of Reforms: Some Individual Initiatives

- 9: Reforms in Perspective: General Issues for India

- An Update on Reforms

- Appendix

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Late Suresh D. Tendulkar taught at the Delhi School of Economics till his retirement in 2004. He was Chairman, National Statistical Commission and Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, Government of India.

T.A. Bhavani is Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.