Liberalization, Growth and Regional Disparities in India

Madhusudan Ghosh is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal (India). He was a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and a Visiting Professor at Soka University, Tokyo (Japan). He was awarded a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Economics by the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, and the Dr. D.K. Desai Memorial Prize (four times) by the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Mumbai. Prof. Ghosh is an active researcher and has been teaching for the last 32 years. Previously, he taught at North Bengal University (West Bengal) and R.K.M.R. College, Narendrapur (West Bengal). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. His areas of interest in teaching and research include Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, and Indian Economic Development.

 Chapter1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Review of Economic Policies and Growth Performance.- Chapter 3: Regional Economic Growth and Inequality.- Chapter 4: Growth and Regional Divergence in Industry and Services.- Chapter 5: Growth and Regional Divergence in Agriculture.- Chapter 6: Structural Breaks and Performance in Agriculture.- Chapter 7: Growth and Structural Breaks in Food Grains Production.- Chapter 8: Spatial Efficiency in Regional Food Grain Markets.- Chapter 9: Inclusive Growth, Employment and Rural Poverty.- Chapter 10: Microfinance and Rural Poverty.- Chapter 11: Regional Disparities in Education, Health and Human Development.