Most discussions of India's substantive economic growth since the 1990s tend to focus on national level statistics or on particular sectors such as the financial and call service sectors or on the pharmaceutical industry. But with a population of 1.2 billion, India demands to be treated like a...

For large countries, an agenda of integration, deregulation, and natural resource management reform typically cannot be fully pursued without the active participation of sub-national governments. Most of the literature about federalism and reform is about the reform of federalism, and focuses on...

Focussing on reforms with a human face this volume examines the multi-dimensional realtionship between poverty and growth elaborating on effective and equitable instruments to raise resources necessary for human development and creation of physical infrastructure to facilitate empowerment to the...