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India's Policy Milieu

Economic Development, Planning and Industry

S.K. Goyal

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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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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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India's Policy Milieu

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