Table of content:

Part I
Planning, Institutional Framework,
Constraints and Role of the State

1. Indian Economy at Independence
Uma Kapila


2. Planning, Market and the State
Editorial Notes

3. Economic Reforms: Looking Back and Ahead
C. Rangarajan

4. India’s Economic Reforms:
Reflections on the Unfinished Agenda
Vijay Joshi

5. Fiscal and Budgetary Developments:
Prospects and Reforms
Editorial Notes

6. Demography and Development
Editorial Notes

7. India’s Demographic Transition and its
Consequences for Development
Tim Dyson


Part II
Growth and Structural Change since 1950

8. Growth and Structural Change Since 1950
Editorial Notes

9. The Recovery of India: Economic Growth
in the Nehru Era
Pulapre Balakrishnan

10. Pressing the Indian Growth Accelerator:
Policy Imperative
Rakesh Mohan and Muneesh Kapur

11. The Intriguing Picture of Investment
C. Rangarajan

12. India on the Growth Turnpike:
No State Left Behind
Arvind Panagariya


Part III
Distributional Issues: Poverty, Inequality, Malnutrition
and Unemployment

13. Assessment of the Growth Experience:
Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment
Editorial Notes

14. Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for
Measurement of Poverty: Executive Summary
Rangarajan Committee Report

15. Counting the Poor: Measurement and Other Issues
C. Rangarajan and S. Mahendra Dev

16. Inequities in Access to Health Services in India:
Caste, Class and Region
Rama Baru, Arnab Acharya, Sanghmitra Acharya,
A.K. Shiva Kumar and K. Nagaraj

17. Labour and Employment in Fast Growing India:
Issues of Employment and Inclusiveness
T.S. Papola and Alakh N. Sharma


Part IV
Agriculture

18. Indian Agriculture: Developments, Issues,
Policies and Agenda for Reforms
Editorial Notes

19. Economic Reforms and Indian Agriculture
Ashok Gulati and Shweta Saini

20. The Context and Conundrums of
Contemporary Agriculture
World Bank Group

21. Agrarian Performance and Food Price Inflation
in India: Pre- and Post-Economic Liberalisation
Sthanur R. Nair and Leena Mary Eapen



Part V
Industry, Services and Infrastructure

22. Industrial Development and
Policies since Independence
Editorial Notes

23. Economic Reforms and Manufacturing
Sector Growth: Need for Reconfiguring the
Industrialisation Model
R. Nagaraj

24. Economic Growth without Employment:
The Story of Indian Manufacturing
Jayan Jose Thomas

25. The Employment Problem in India and the
Phenomenon of the Missing Middle
Dipak Mazumdar and Sandip Sarkar

26. On Strategies for Disinvestment and Privatisation
Vijay Kelkar

27. Of Omissions and Commissions:
India’s Competition Laws
Aditya Bhattacharjea

28. Clothes and Shoes: Can India Reclaim
Low Skill Manufacturing?
Ministry of Finance

29. India’s Services Sector:
Trends, Opportunities and Challengess
Rupa Chanda

30. Infrastructure and Economic Development
Editorial Notes

31. Indian Financial Sector: Structure,
Trends and Turns
Rakesh Mohan and Partha Ray


Part VI
The External Sector

32. India’s External Sector:
Policies, Developments and Issues
Editorial Notes

33. Some Issues in External Sector Management
C. Rangarajan

34. India’s New Foreign Trade Policy:
Pluses and Minuses
Biswajit Dhar

35. Make in India: Which Exports can Drive
the Next Wave of Growth?
Rahul Anand, Kalpana Kochhar and Saurabh Mishra

36. Foreign Direct and Portfolio Investments
Flows and Development:
A Perspective on Indian Experience
Nagesh Kumar

37. India and the WTO
Editorial Notes

38. Indian Economy Today: An Overview and
Comparative Perspective
Uma Kapila