Product Description: The world at large is watching both China and India as powerhouses of economic growth. The two nations have achieved significantly high rates of economic growth ever since their respective economies liberalized in 1978 and 1991. Singapore, despite its limited land size and almost total dependence on external trade, has performed remarkably well and has moved ‘from the third world to the first’...read more

Product Description: From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India...read more

Product Description: State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and spatial restructuring...read more

Product Description: The recent interest in the development processes of BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has been triggered by their high growth performance. But their political and social background is entirely different. We have traced the economic history of BRIC countries to understand their economic and social institutions...read more

Product Description: Professor Sundrum describes India's economic performance and policies since 1950. He analyses the relationship between planning and market mechanisms, the role of the administration, and the country's policies regarding production, distribution, and the mobilization of resources...read more

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Product Description: While there has been a perceptible increase in per capita income and expenditure and possibly some decline in the incidence of poverty in India, what till remains is massive and will not be remedied quickly. Even with radical policies, to effect a large change in the shifts in income and occupational structures will take more than the rest of this century...read more

Product Description: The role of food prices and intersectoral terms of trade in stimulating agricultural growth and effecting changes in income has been the subject of considerable controversy in India. This work reviews the debate on the role of terms of trade in relation to growth and equity and analyzes the relative impact of price and technology policies on changes in output, income distribution, and consumption for various classes in India's rural and urban sectors...read more