India's Policy Milieu
Economic Development, Planning and Industry
S.K. Goyal
Economic Development, Planning and Industry
About the Book
This book comprising a collection of articles written by the eminent economist Prof S.K. Goyal under a different political-economic context of planning era, is of continuing relevance to the on-going debate on issues like the vastly increased role of foreign capital, restructuring of public sector, financial sector transformation, crony capitalism, endemic trade imbalances and functioning of new regulatory bodies which characterise India’s transition to the new economic policy regime.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
S.K. Goyal, after obtaining doctoral degree from Delhi School of Economics (1961), taught in Deshbandu College, Kirori Mal College and subsequently at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), where he was Professor of Economics and Public Policy. He founded the Corporate Studies Group at IIPA, which was later transformed into the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi. He steered ISID as its Founder-Director during 1986-2003. He is currently Emeritus Professor and Vice-Chairman of ISID.
His intellectual journey covered a vast area specifically industrial and trade policies, planning, public sector, monopolies, foreign capital and the corporate sector. He directed a number of research projects relating to the functioning of industrial regulations, public sector, Indian big business, multinational corporations and foreign investments. He has many publications to his credit and has pioneered the building of extensive databases on the Indian corporate sector and Indian social science literature and a Press Clippings Archive. He was also associated with a number of important official committees: Study Team on Machinery for Planning at the Central and State Levels (1966-67), Industrial Licensing Policy Inquiry Committee (1967-1969) and the Research Advisory Committee, Planning Commission, Government of India, in the rank of Cabinet Minister (1991).
Contents in Detail
List of Tables and Figures
Professor S.K. Goyal: An Intellectual Journey
I. Concentration of Economic Power
1. Government Policy and Concentration in the Indian Economy
2. Concentration of Economic Power
3. The Concept and Measurement of Concentration
4. Nature and Growth of the Indian Corporate Sector
5. Organised Sector: Directions of Change
6. New Industrial Licensing Policy: An Empirical Assessment
7. Functioning of Industrial Licensing System
8. Small-scale Sector and Big Business
II. Bank Nationalisation
9. Bank Nationalisation
10. Banking Institutions and Indian Economy: A Critical Review
11. Banking Commission Report: Who will ask the Relevant Questions?
I cannot say!
III. Multinational Corporations
12. Multinational Corporations in India: The Need for a Framework
13. The Impact of Foreign Subsidiaries on India’s Balance of Payments
14. The New International Economic Order and
Transnational Corporations
15. Multinational Corporations and Indian Policy Framework
16. Transnational Corporations and the Third World
17. Multinational Corporations and Self-Reliance
18. Foreign Private Investments in India: Myth and Reality
IV. Public Sector
19. Private Managements and Takeovers of Public-owned Companies:
Some Issues for Debate
20. Public Accountability of Deemed Government Companies
21. Privatisation of Public Enterprises: Some Issues for Debate
22. Joint Industrial Sector: Purpose and Form
V. Journalist Miscellany
23. FICCI and the Planning Commission: Strange Alliance
against the Dutt Report
24. India: The Economy and the Economists
25. Approach to Fifth Plan: A Comment
26. A Critique of India’s Fifth Plan
27. Planning comes to a Halt
28. Judging Public Sector Performance
29. Small-scale Sector Sabotaged
30. Political Beliefs and Economic Reality
31. Small Units being Swallowed Up
32. Self-Reliance and Foreign Capital
33. Public Sector Enterprises: The Case for Restructuring
34. Small-scale Sector: Traversing an Ambiguous Path
35. Ownership and Control Structure of the Indian Press
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Number of Pages | 480 |
| ISBN |
9789332701274 |
Academic Foundation (AF), based in New Delhi, is India’s leading independent publisher of academic/scholarly books in Social Sciences, specialising in Economics—Development Economics and Indian Economy in particular, and allied subjects.
About the Book
This book comprising a collection of articles written by the eminent economist Prof S.K. Goyal under a different political-economic context of planning era, is of continuing relevance to the on-going debate on issues like the vastly increased role of foreign capital, restructuring of public sector, financial sector transformation, crony capitalism, endemic trade imbalances and functioning of new regulatory bodies which characterise India’s transition to the new economic policy regime.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
S.K. Goyal, after obtaining doctoral degree from Delhi School of Economics (1961), taught in Deshbandu College, Kirori Mal College and subsequently at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), where he was Professor of Economics and Public Policy. He founded the Corporate Studies Group at IIPA, which was later transformed into the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi. He steered ISID as its Founder-Director during 1986-2003. He is currently Emeritus Professor and Vice-Chairman of ISID.
His intellectual journey covered a vast area specifically industrial and trade policies, planning, public sector, monopolies, foreign capital and the corporate sector. He directed a number of research projects relating to the functioning of industrial regulations, public sector, Indian big business, multinational corporations and foreign investments. He has many publications to his credit and has pioneered the building of extensive databases on the Indian corporate sector and Indian social science literature and a Press Clippings Archive. He was also associated with a number of important official committees: Study Team on Machinery for Planning at the Central and State Levels (1966-67), Industrial Licensing Policy Inquiry Committee (1967-1969) and the Research Advisory Committee, Planning Commission, Government of India, in the rank of Cabinet Minister (1991).
Contents in Detail
List of Tables and Figures
Professor S.K. Goyal: An Intellectual Journey
I. Concentration of Economic Power
1. Government Policy and Concentration in the Indian Economy
2. Concentration of Economic Power
3. The Concept and Measurement of Concentration
4. Nature and Growth of the Indian Corporate Sector
5. Organised Sector: Directions of Change
6. New Industrial Licensing Policy: An Empirical Assessment
7. Functioning of Industrial Licensing System
8. Small-scale Sector and Big Business
II. Bank Nationalisation
9. Bank Nationalisation
10. Banking Institutions and Indian Economy: A Critical Review
11. Banking Commission Report: Who will ask the Relevant Questions?
I cannot say!
III. Multinational Corporations
12. Multinational Corporations in India: The Need for a Framework
13. The Impact of Foreign Subsidiaries on India’s Balance of Payments
14. The New International Economic Order and
Transnational Corporations
15. Multinational Corporations and Indian Policy Framework
16. Transnational Corporations and the Third World
17. Multinational Corporations and Self-Reliance
18. Foreign Private Investments in India: Myth and Reality
IV. Public Sector
19. Private Managements and Takeovers of Public-owned Companies:
Some Issues for Debate
20. Public Accountability of Deemed Government Companies
21. Privatisation of Public Enterprises: Some Issues for Debate
22. Joint Industrial Sector: Purpose and Form
V. Journalist Miscellany
23. FICCI and the Planning Commission: Strange Alliance
against the Dutt Report
24. India: The Economy and the Economists
25. Approach to Fifth Plan: A Comment
26. A Critique of India’s Fifth Plan
27. Planning comes to a Halt
28. Judging Public Sector Performance
29. Small-scale Sector Sabotaged
30. Political Beliefs and Economic Reality
31. Small Units being Swallowed Up
32. Self-Reliance and Foreign Capital
33. Public Sector Enterprises: The Case for Restructuring
34. Small-scale Sector: Traversing an Ambiguous Path
35. Ownership and Control Structure of the Indian Press
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Number of Pages | 480 |
| ISBN |
9789332701274 |
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