The recent developments in the new growth theory shows the theoretical link between industrial productivity and market mechanism in terms of private agents’ incentives for investing in research and development and human capital accumulation. Several developing economies, such as India, that...

The Indian growth spurt of the 1980s has led DeLong (<CitationRef CitationID="CR6">2003</CitationRef>), Rodrik & Subramaniam (IMF Staff Papers 52(2):193–228, <CitationRef CitationID="CR38">2005</CitationRef>) and Kohli (Economic and Political Weekly 41(14):1361–1370, <CitationRef CitationID="CR18">2006</CitationRef>) to question the need for market reforms in the 1990s and the supporters of liberalization to argue that it...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

The policy reforms initiated in India in the mid-1980s and expanded in 1991 helped support an expansion in India’s trade. Trade reforms since the mid-1990s have been piecemeal. This paper argues that without significant further reform and adoption of a focused trade strategy, the...

A pilot Intensive Agricultural Development Program, popularly known as IADP, or Package Program, was undertaken by India in cooperation with the Ford Foundation in 1960. It was designed for participation by all farmers in selected districts. Assistance in adoption of a locally adapted "package"...

A brief outline of the economic and financial structure of the State and the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank is highlighted. But there are some policy challenges in sustaining the growth momentum. [Speech delivered at the G. B. Pant University of Agricultural...

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...

Over 250,000 farmers have committed suicide in India since the mid-1990s. Studies – both case studies of states and at the individual-level - attribute these deaths to credit crunches in the agrarian sector and increased debt burden among farmers. Most of the farm suicides have, however, taken...

India has been an exemplary case of economic growth, lionized in the international press as one of the emerging market economies that will take over the world economy in the current century. The Indian services revolution is often cited as an example of an alternative development strategy under...

This paper examines the determinants of fertility, child mortality and female disadvantage in child survival in India, using a district-level panel data set linking 1981 and 1991 censuses. The results of the paper, inter alia, question the dominant view in this area which asserts that it is...