Product Description: The book explores, for India and other developing countries, the potential role the organized manufacturing sector could play as an engine of growth. Alongside growth, can this sector generate adequate employment opportunities to facilitate the transfer of labour from the agriculture sector? The book identifies the major constraints that result in limited demand for labour in the organised manufacturing sector...read more

Product Description: This book examines the composition of growth and its relevance in the context of poverty reduction. It also analyses the causes of path differences and their impact on employment generation and levels of living.

Product Description: Comprising contributions from 30 scholars, this collection of papers evaluates Indian industrialization in the context of recent market-enhancing and trade-liberalizing reforms. Tracing shifts in Indian industrial policy since the country gained its independence, this study throws light on the various facets of the remarkable transformation of the Indian economy due to industrialization...read more

Product Description: Selected papers on macroeconomics and welfare contain studies on exchange rate, interest rate, money demand and supply, monetary and fiscal policies, inflation and its relationship with growth at aggregate and sectoral levels, growth and distribution, pollution, environment, rural poverty, health care, and micro credit...read more