India's emerging economy : performance and prospects in the 1990s and beyond

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India's emerging economy : performance and prospects in the 1990s and beyond

Basu, Kaushik. - Personal Name;

Essays by leading academics, policymakers, and industrialists examine India's economic success in the late 1990s.

India's economy over the last decade looks in many ways like a success story; after a major economic crisis in 1991, followed by bold reform measures, the economy has experienced a rapid economic growth rate, more foreign investment, and a boom in the information technology sector. Yet many in the country still suffer from crushing poverty, and social and political unrest remains a problem. These essays by leading academics, policymakers, and industrialists—including one by Amartya Sen, the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on poverty and inequality—examine the facts of India's recent economic successes and their social and cultural context.

India's rate of economic growth after the 1991 reforms were instituted reached a remarkable 7 percent for three consecutive years, from 1994 to 1997. Several contributors to India's Emerging Economy ask what this means for the nation as a whole. In his essay "Democracy and Secularism in India," Amartya Sen argues that economic progress is not the only way to measure a nation's performance. Other essays examine the actual effect India's economic growth has had on reducing poverty and recommend policies to empower the poor. Essays also address such issues as globalization and the vulnerabilities and opportunities it creates, India's experience with monetary and fiscal reform, the rapid growth of the

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Call Number: 330 IND
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press,., 2004
Collation: 1 online resource.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780262267885
Classification: 330
Content Type: text
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Carrier Type: online resource
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Subject(s): India
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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Kaushik Basu.

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3724.001.0001
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