India's Economic Reforms and Development
A. Vaidyanathan
About the Book
Rapid economic growth and eradication of abject poverty have been the core concerns of India’s polity and government throughout the last five decades. Coordinated planning with the state playing the leading role in initiating and regulating the process of development in pursuit of these objectives has been a distinctive feature. Specific targets, perceptions of the problems involved and their solutions have been changing over time. The essays in this collection provide an overview of evolution of this process culminating in the far-reaching reorientation of strategy and policies during the nineties and a critical assessment of their rationale, implementation and impact from the political economy perspective.
The essays are divided into two sections : Those in the first part, mostly written in the nineties, focus on key elements of overall development strategy being pursued from the early nineties, the rationale and the thrust of the structural adjustment package soon after it was unveiled by Dr. Manmohan Singh, issues relating to subsidies and foreign direct investment and broader issues of the role of the state generally and of planning in particular in the changed context.
The lead piece in this section pulls together the assessment of different aspects and attempts an overall assessment of the antecedents of the reforms of the nineties, their halting and meandering course and the reasons for their less-than-expected achievements. It also reflects on the prospects for the future.
Selections in the second section spanning over a much longer period discuss issues relating to poverty — concepts, data and measurement and regional variations, evolution of poverty alleviation programmes, critical commentary on their design, implementation and measures to improve their efficacy.
The general thrust of the essays is critical of the design and implementation of the reform package and skeptical of its impact on growth and socio-economic inequality.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
A. Vaidyanathan is currently Emeritus Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (Chennai, India) and is a member of the Prime Minister’s Econo-mic Advisory Council.
Born in 1931, he was educated in Madras, and did his post graduation in the USA. After obtaining a Ph.D from Cornell University, he worked for 6 years (1956-62) as economist in the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. Thereafter he joined the Perspective Planning Division of the Planning Commission, Government of India.
After 10 years in the Planning Commission, and 4 years in the World Bank, he shifted to the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, in 1976 and worked there as Professor for 8 years and has been in the Madras Institute of Development Studies since 1984.
He has been president of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics since 1993. Currently he is also Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi.
Prof. Vaidyanathan has served on a number of Government Committees : as Member of the Planning Commission in New Delhi and Tamilnadu State Planning Commission; and Chairperson of a Committee on Irrigation Pricing set up by the Planning Commission.
Contents in Detail
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2003 |
| Number of Pages | 504 |
| ISBN |
8171882870 |
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
Rapid economic growth and eradication of abject poverty have been the core concerns of India’s polity and government throughout the last five decades. Coordinated planning with the state playing the leading role in initiating and regulating the process of development in pursuit of these objectives has been a distinctive feature. Specific targets, perceptions of the problems involved and their solutions have been changing over time. The essays in this collection provide an overview of evolution of this process culminating in the far-reaching reorientation of strategy and policies during the nineties and a critical assessment of their rationale, implementation and impact from the political economy perspective.
The essays are divided into two sections : Those in the first part, mostly written in the nineties, focus on key elements of overall development strategy being pursued from the early nineties, the rationale and the thrust of the structural adjustment package soon after it was unveiled by Dr. Manmohan Singh, issues relating to subsidies and foreign direct investment and broader issues of the role of the state generally and of planning in particular in the changed context.
The lead piece in this section pulls together the assessment of different aspects and attempts an overall assessment of the antecedents of the reforms of the nineties, their halting and meandering course and the reasons for their less-than-expected achievements. It also reflects on the prospects for the future.
Selections in the second section spanning over a much longer period discuss issues relating to poverty — concepts, data and measurement and regional variations, evolution of poverty alleviation programmes, critical commentary on their design, implementation and measures to improve their efficacy.
The general thrust of the essays is critical of the design and implementation of the reform package and skeptical of its impact on growth and socio-economic inequality.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
A. Vaidyanathan is currently Emeritus Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (Chennai, India) and is a member of the Prime Minister’s Econo-mic Advisory Council.
Born in 1931, he was educated in Madras, and did his post graduation in the USA. After obtaining a Ph.D from Cornell University, he worked for 6 years (1956-62) as economist in the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. Thereafter he joined the Perspective Planning Division of the Planning Commission, Government of India.
After 10 years in the Planning Commission, and 4 years in the World Bank, he shifted to the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, in 1976 and worked there as Professor for 8 years and has been in the Madras Institute of Development Studies since 1984.
He has been president of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics since 1993. Currently he is also Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi.
Prof. Vaidyanathan has served on a number of Government Committees : as Member of the Planning Commission in New Delhi and Tamilnadu State Planning Commission; and Chairperson of a Committee on Irrigation Pricing set up by the Planning Commission.
Contents in Detail
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2003 |
| Number of Pages | 504 |
| ISBN |
8171882870 |
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