TY - GEN AU - GOYAL, ASHIMA (EDITOR) TI - THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INDIAN ECONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY SN - 9780198097532 U1 - 330.954 PY - 2014/// CY - NEW DELHI PB - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS KW - INDIA KW - ECONOMIC CONDITION KW - 1991 KW - ECONOMIC POLICY N1 - ook Description Contributors List Contents Readership About the Author(s) List of Tables and Figures Foreword by Bimal Jalan Preface Introduction and Overview by Ashima Goyal I. STRUCTURE AND REFORM 1. Drivers of Growth: Sources and Sectors Laveesh Bhandari and Sumita Kale 2. Political Economy of Growth Rahul Mukherji 3. After Liberalizing Reforms: Public Policy at a Crossroads Pulapre Balakrishnan II. THE MACROECONOMY 4. Inflation in India: Trends and Determinants Deepak Mohanty 5. Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Outcomes and Coordination Romar Correa 6. Monetary Policy Transmission in India: Interplay of Rate and Quantum Channels Kanagasabapathy K., Rekha A. Bhangaonkar, and Shruti J. Pandey III. THE OPEN ECONOMY 7. Openness and Growth in the Indian Economy Soumyen Sikdar 8. Financial Globalization in India: Opportunity and Volatility Renu Kohli 9. Reforms and Global Economic Integration of the Indian Economy: Emerging Patterns, Challenges, and Future Directions Nagesh Kumar IV. INCLUSION: EQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY 10. Poverty and Inequality: Redesigning Intervention Raghbendra Jha and Anurag Sharma 11. Policy Design for Food Security in India: Ensuring Stable Supplies and Economic Access Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan 12. Harnessing the Demographic Dividend in India: Can Primary Education Deliver? Rukmini Banerji and Wilima Wadhwa 13. Health Security Gita Sen 14. Castes, Gender, and Class: Dynamism or Stasis? Ashwini Deshpande V. GOVERNANCE 15. Government Taxes and Expenditures: Experience and Reform Parthasarathi Shome 16. The Dynamics of Urban Governance in India Abhay Pethe, Vaidehi Tandel, and Sahil Gandhi 17. Issues in Federalism and Decentralization T.R. Raghunandan 18. Law and Regulation: Towards Social Control of Economic Activities in India A.V. Raja and Francis Xavier Rathinam 19. The Evolving System of Corporate Governance in India Jayati Sarkar and Subrata Sarkar VI. INFRASTRUCTURE 20. A Governance Analysis of Transportation in India S. Sriraman 21. Infrastructure: Source of Growth or Bottleneck? Ram Singh and Param Jit 22. Private Participation in Power Distribution Reforms Sidharth Sinha 23. Promoting SEZs as a Strategy of Industrialization and Lessons Learnt Aradhna Aggarwal VII. SECTORS 24. Agriculture in India: Performance, Challenges, and Opportunities S. Mahendra Dev, Srijit Mishra, and Vijay Laxmi Pandey 25. New Sources of Dynamism in the Industry Bandi Ram Prasad 26. Making Indian ICT Work for India Rohit Prasad 27. Urban Informal Sector: Functioning, Constraints, and Mobility Arup Mitra 28. The Unorganized Sector and Access to Finance in Rural India Saibal Kar and Meghna Dutta VIII. FACTORS: TECHNOLOGY, LABOUR, FINANCE 29. Innovation and Development in India: Changing Paradigms and Trajectories K.J. Joseph and Kiran Kumar Kakarlapudi 30. Labour Market: Balancing Freedom and Protection Rupayan Pal and Bibhas Saha 31. The Financial Sector in India: An Overview Rajesh Chakrabarti 32 Banks: Financing the Future T.T. Ram Mohan 33. Financial Intermediation and Economic Development: Evidence from Bihar Sanjay Banerji, Krishna Gangopadhyay, Prashant Gupta, and Sushanta Mallick About the Editor and Contributors Index N2 - India has shown considerable dynamic change since the mid-1980s, after experiencing slower growth for much of the post-Independence period. The post-reform Indian economy has defied established economic patterns and, in the process, created a few paradoxes. In The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century, acknowledged experts delve into the unique features of India's growth path and debate the relative importance of external factors compared to domestic reforms such as better governance. While openness provided significant benefits, did the gradualness of the process mitigate risks or did it reduce growth? Were external shocks or poor domestic policies responsible for inflation? Were the advantages of new technology fully utilized by the country? Despite similarities with China, will critical differences force India to follow a growth path that has better balance between domestic and export demand? These and other relevant issues are discussed in this handbook, which: adopts a context-rich, research-based, non-ideological approach, provides a comprehensive yet forward-looking coverage of economic issues, includes political and social aspects and draws on policymaker and market-participant perspectives, and brings to the fore the various aspects of India's performance that now attract global attention. This work identifies constraints that have emerged in India's growth prospects, and highlights policies, institutions, and incentives that have worked and offer a promise for the future ER -