India's long road : the search for prosperity /

India's economic resurgence has been the subject of many extravagant predictions and hopes. In this powerful and wide-ranging book, distinguished economist Vijay Joshi lays out a penetrating analysis of the shaky foundations of the country's performance, and charts the course that it shoul...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joshi, Vijay (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; India's Long Road; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I: Setting the Stage; 1. India at the Cusp; 2. 1947-​2016: A Tour d'Horizon; 3. Ends and Means, State and Market; Part II: The Growth Challenge; 4. Capital Accumulation and Animal Spirits; 5. Growth and the Employment Problem; 6. Productivity and Economic Reform; 7. Ownership, Infrastructure, and the Environment; Part III: Stability and Inclusion; 8. The Requisites of Macroeconomic Stability; Appendix to Chapter 8: Inflation Targeting; 9. Education and Health Care: A Question of Quality
  • 10. Safety Nets and Social ProtectionAppendix to Chapter 10: Estimate of the Cost of Providing a 'Basic Income'; Part IV: Political Economy; 11. The State of the State; 12. India and the World Economy; Part V: The Future: Long Is the Way, and Hard ... ; 13. What Is to Be Done? What Lies Ahead?; References; Index