Contents: Foreword. 1. It was "A drastic economic reversal" in 1991; the "Real Economic Reforms" are still awaited/G.P. Tripathi. 2. Economic development and social sector reforms: unsettled Agenda for future/N.G. Pendse and Rohit Balyani. 3. Economic liberalization and its impact on Indian economy/Himanshu K. Desai. 4. Globalization of market economy : nature and consequences/Lokesh Prasad. 5. Impact and effect of globalization and consumerism in India/Sadhna Verma. 6. National agriculture policy : some issues/Sanjeev Dubey and Sanjay Tiwari. 7. Agricultural development and new economic policy : some issues/Aparna Goswami and N.G. Pendse. 8. Agricultural marketing in India : present state, promotion policy, progress and improvement/Shailesh Choubey and Mrityunjay Kumar. 9. Agricultural marketing in India : policy and performance/A.K. Sarawogi. 10. Farm sector Reform : A SWOT analysis/Manish Sharma and N.K. Koshti. 11. Imperfect information based globalization and liberalization process and emerging trends of agriculture poverty and employment in rural economy/D.P. Tiwari. 12. Economic reforms and food security for poor/Anil Kumar Choudhary. 13. Socio-economic development of rural India : a case study of paper and Catechu industries/H.G. Mishra. 14. Promotion of rural non-agricultural employment : need of the hour/Reeta Thakur. 15. Empirical study of employment with special reference to pre and post economic reforms in India/Narendra Shukla and Dasmant Das Patel. 16. Critical analysis of disinvestment in Indian public sector undertakings/Ranjana Patel. 17. Emerging trend in Indian federalism : states as international economic actors/Akhilesh Kumar Sharma. 18. Fiscal reform measures in Uttar Pradesh : an overview/Malti Nigam and O.P. Shukla. 19. Financial sector reforms: the banking sector/N.C. Tripathi. 20. Customer Service in Bank : after economic reforms/M.C. Shrivastava and R.S. Thakur. 21. Concept of Purusarthas and voluntary reformative measures for human development: Gandhian perspective/Priyavrat Shukla.

"This books systematically presents various aspects of economic reforms introduced in 1991 with respect to Indian economy. Thus the subject matter of economic reforms included in the present book covers wide range of topics from farm sector, industrial sector, banking, insurance and financial sector, state level economic reforms to social sector reforms in detail. It is expected that the finalising and suggestions of various research work would be helpful to scholars, policy makers, economic planners and government in preparing future programmes for Indian economy." (jacket)