Isbn: 9789394569720 (4 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. This volume contains seventeen papers dealing with different aspects of development and planning in India. The papers have been arranged under four sections. dealing with Planning in Mixed Economy, India China Comparison, Development Strategy and Policy and Recent Developments in Indian Economy. The first section contains five papers dealing with the issues related to the nature of the mixed economy and the problems it poses for economic planning, Nehru's idea of socialism and the mixed economy; state administration and plan implementation; the concept of good governance and its inter-relationship with transparency and right to information; and corruption and development.Section 2 contains three papers dealing with economic development in India and China in a comparative framework. Section 3 has five papers dealing with development strategy and policy. The papers question the appropriateness of the development model based on the Western Paradigm followed by the Indian planners. The issues related to liberalisation, growth strategy and the economic crisis of the early 1990s and the social consequences of the new economic policies have been examined. The relationship between population growth and economic development has been analysed in a historical perspective. Section 4 contains four papers dealing with recent developments in the Indian economy. The papers critically examine the assumptions behind the demographic dividend hypothesis and tried to assess to what extent India is in a position to tap the potential demographic dividend; the rationale and the impact of demonetization on the Indian economy; the feasibility of the goal of making India a 5 trillion economy by 2024-25; and shortcomings of the methodology followed by the NitiAyog in preparation of the National Multidimensional Poverty Index. The book will be of great interest for the policy makers, scholars and general public interested in the problems of development and planning in India.…