Current Issues Before Indian Economy
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. India\'s economic policy and performance: 1. India\'s economic policy: A journey from socialistic pattern of society to market economy system. 2. Performance of the Indian economy in the past sixty years: A brief review. II. Poverty in India: 3. Challenge of poverty in India. 4. Poverty alleviation strategy. III. Unemployment in India: 5. Employment strategy for India: Realities and challenges. IV. Black economy in India: 6. Black economy in India. V. Corruption and development: 7. Crime, corruption and development in Indian economy. 8. Corruption and rent seeking in less developed countries. VI. Globalisation, democracy and development: 9. Democratic polity, governance and development in less developed countries: An Indian perspective. 10. World economy at the crossroads in the post-socialist era: Emerging issues before the socialist and the less developed countries. VII. Sustainable development agenda: 11. Development and environmental imperatives of sustainable development: India\'s options. 12. J.K. Mehta\'s economic philosophy in the globalized world economy of the new millennium: Lessons for India. 13. Gandhi\'s economic thinking: It\'s relevance in twenty-first century India. 14. Economic philosophy of Vedas; A spiritual based human development agenda. Index.
"This book takes up the ongoing challenges faced by the Indian economy, polity and society in the present days. The focal point of current debate in Indian economy pertains to the policy shift in favour of the market indicating a departure from the socialistic pattern, corruption and inefficiency of the government sector, generic problems of abject poverty and huge unemployment, functioning of the democratic institutions and their interference in long term economic development agenda, and the sustainability of growth. However, the problem faced by Indian economy pertains more to less development and not excess of development and poverty.
The subject matter of the book pertains to the development challenges before the Indian economy. The work is divided into seven parts to focus and study the issues faced by political economy since independence of the country. It attempts to present a brief account of India\'s development experience of past sixty-one years. The country, in the recent past, has headed towards split mandates in the polity and thereby an era of alliance governments formed under compulsions has begun. Economic development agenda coming out of these compromises with insecurity of tenure brings to the fore something novel and unheard of. As a result the economic policies prepared and advocated by one political party is vetoed by other political parties in power." (jacket)
