India's Economic Reforms, 1991-2001

Description

India is the world's largest democracy, and second-largest developing country. For forty years it has also been one of the most dirigiste and autarkic. The 1980s saw most developing and erstwhile communist countries opt for market economic systems. India belatedly initiated similar reforms in 1991. This book evaluates the progress of those reforms, covering all of the major areas of policy; stabilization, taxation and trade, domestic and external finance, agriculture, industry, the social sectors, and poverty alleviation. Will India realize its great potential by freeing itself from the self-imposed constraints that have hindered its development? This is the important and fascinating question considered by this book.

About the Author
Vijay Joshi, Fellow, Merton College, Oxford, and I. M. D Little, Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

Reviews

clear and accessible discussion of technical economic policies ... will be useful for policymakers and students of India's economic reforms. - Tanweer Akram, Asian Affairs
Detailed analysis of India's macroeconomic fortunes from the early Sixties to the early Nineties. - London Review of Books
Vijay Joshi and Ian Little have ... written a superb account of the Indian economy. - Meghnad Desai, Times Higher Education Supplement
This study is probably the most cogent account so far of India's economic reforms since 1991. - The Economist
Vijay Joshi and Ian Little have provided an exemplary survey and critique of the reforms undertaken since 1991. - Robert Skidelsky, Times Literary Supplement
This study is probably the most cogent account so far of India's economic reforms since 1991, and of the debates within the country on the changes. - The Economist Review
an exemplary survey and critique of the reforms undertaken since 1991 ... The strength of India's Economic Reforms 1991-2001 lies in its detail. - Times Literary Supplement