Section I
Governance

1.Democracy, Growth and Welfare: Is There a
Conflict or Contradiction?

2.Administrative Reforms and the Economy

3.A Committed Bureaucracy

4.Managing Social Welfare Schemes

5.Statutory Regulatory Commissions

6.Governance Lessons: Top Level Commitment

7.Comparative Economic Governance: Corporate
China and India

8.Governance: American Financial Markets

9.Governing and Managing Cities: The Case
of Bangalore

10.Self-Regulation

11.Regulating Corruption



Section II
Economy

12.When Competition is Not the Answer

13.Government Interventions in Markets

14.Managing Subsidies: Government and
Corporate Practice

15.Economic Forecasting in India

16.Challenge and Change in Indian Agriculture
Economy

17.Foreign Direct Investment in Retail to
Solve India’s Agricultural Problems

18.Indian Reforms History

19.A Reforms Agenda




Section III
Society

20.Don’t Shun Inequality

21.Helping Hands

22.India: A Superpower in the 21st Century?

23.Political Prognosis: Party and Government

24.The RSS Influence on the Government

25.Beyond Family Values: Future of the
Congress Party

26.Leadership: Prime Ministers and Presidents

27.Liberty versus Licence

28.Secularism and Communal Harmony




Section IV
Energy

29.Energy Security Insights

30.Power Shortage

31.National Thermal Power Corporation:
Business and Social Responsibility

32.Regulation, Competition and Efficiency
Improvement




Section V
Industry

33.Regulating Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

34.Old and New Managers and Leaders

35.Crony Capitalism

36.Inspector Raj and Career Professionals

37.Managing Family Business

38.Why So Many State-owned Enterprises?

This book considers what we must do to make India a consistently improving socio-economy. Despite many creative ideas from dedicated leaders, we remain a very poor country.
There is little manufacturing, a stumbling agriculture, and around 300 million or so people with limited access to food, none to electricity and practically none to health and education. The primary reason for this is poor implementation of good ideas and policies. Effective implementation requires an understanding of the environment (political, social and economic), institutions and how they work, clear output targets, and systems to monitor, implement and change course when necessary. This is what good management is all about. India has not lacked in ideas for improving the economy and the society, but in managing them. The book looks at the context and suggests actions in different areas to improve the management of India.