Indian Economic Reform and Response of States
Contents: Introduction. 1. Reform and growth Panorama/Amalesh Banerjee. I. Fiscal Dynamics: 2. Analysis of indicators of fiscal stability and consolidation/R. Arunachalam. 3. Increasing deficits of the centre and the states/Anil Kumar Jain. 4. The problem of state\'s finance in India: a new approach/Ajit Kumar Chatterjee. 5. State finances in Uttar Pradesh: crisis and reforms/S.P. Tiwari and A.P. Tiwari. 6. A review of financial reform in Orissa/B. Patro, S.R. Das and Ranjukta Panigrahi. 7. State taxes of West Bengal since 1991/Parthasarathi Chattopadhyay. 8. The impact of state level fiscal reforms on state excise duty: a case study of Uttar Pradesh/Jagdish Narayan and Ankita Gupta. 9. Financial reform and mutual funds in India/Sourabh Singha Roy. II. Globalisation, privatisation and information: 10. Globalisation in India: \'Pros and Cons\'/S. Sabhanayakam. 11. Privatisation in Tamil Nadu/K.S.S. Uduman Mohideen. 12. Growth of information technology in Andhra Pradesh/A. Ranga Reddy. III. State economies: 13. Regional disparities in West Bengal/Nilanjana Sengupta. 14. Maharashtra economy: post-reform development/Ram Naresh Thakur. 15. Challenges of development of Jharkhand economy/Ashok Kumar Maji. 16. Economic reform and the growth Vs. livelihood syndrome in Madhya Pradesh/Mona Khare. 17. Economic reforms in Andhra Pradesh: an analysis of trends in different sectors of the state economy/K. Nageswara Rao. IV. Social capital and distribution: 18. Social capital, economic reforms and development/T. Lakshmanasamy. 19. Social sector dynamics in southern states: a post-reform study/P. Jegadish Gandhi. 20. Building social organisations for development: role of NGO/P.K. Roy Barman. V. Agriculture and rural development: 21. Reforms in irrigation management in Madhya Pradesh/R. S. Tiwari. 22. Prospects of agriculture in Kokrajhar District, Assam/Sujata Bhadra. 23. Priority sector lending and reform measures/R. Arunachalam and J.V. Arun. 24. Economic reform and the rural employment structure in India/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 25. Implementation of SGSY in Uttar Pradesh/Sankar Chaterjee. 26. SSI sector of states in the backdrop of economic reforms/Anup K. Mishra and P.K. Sen. 27. Changing scenario in financing the rural sector/Pushpitaranjan Bhattacharya. 28. Self-Help Groups and micro-finance in West Bengal/Manab Sen.
"The book is an important and timely publication as it contains the feed-back of the states on the reform programme. A decade of economic reform programme. A decade of economic reform is completed in India and the second generation reforms measures are underway. At this backdrop an attempt has been made to examine the state level responses to the various economic reforms, to ascertain the merits and demerits, the advantages and disadvantages, the problems and constraints encountered in the implementation of the schemes. Several distinguished scholars from different parts of the country made penetrating analysis of the problems and prospects of the states. The volume as such has wide range of coverage and is divided into five parts.
Section I deals with the fiscal dynamics of the states and specific taxes.
Section II examines the impact of globalisation, privatisation and the importance of information technology.
Section III presents the cases of state economics of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand.
Section IV focuses on the importance of social capital and distribution.
Section V brings forward the problems and prospects of the rural sector with particular reference to water, credit and labour management.
The study indicates that far from being a convergent process of growth there is a widening gap among the states that calls for careful implementation of the reform agenda." (jacket)
