Quarter Century of Liberalization in India

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Preface

I Th e Case of 1991

1. Th e 1991 Reforms: How Home-grown Were They?
Montek S. Ahluwalia
2. Economic Liberalisation in India: Th en and Now
Deepak Nayyar

II Transition and Reforms
3. Economic Liberalisation and the Working Poor
Prabhat Patnaik
4. Indian Economy in Transition: Th e New Order of Th ings
Anjan Chakraborti
5. TINA, India and Economic Liberalisation
T. Sabri Öncü
6. Politics of Growth: Script and Post-script
Atul Sood
7. Making Reforms Work for the Common People
Rajiv Kumar

III Reforms, State Intervention and the Market
8. Markets, Growth and Social Opportunity: India since 1991
Pulapre Balakrishnan
9. 'Fiscal Federalism' in India since 1991: Infirmities of Sound Finance Paradigm
Chirashree Das Gupta and Surajit Mazumdar
10. Economic Reforms and Manufacturing Sector Growth:Need for Reconfiguring the Industrialisation Model
R. Nagaraj
11. Economic Reforms and Agricultural Growth in India 193
Shantanu De Roy
12. No Room for Complacency: Can We Aff ord Build-up of External Liabilities
A.V. Rajwade
13. A-Meri-India: A Note from the Land of Frustrated Aspirants
Aseem Shrivastava

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