domestic and international market realities, creating significant budgetary costs and market distortion. Inability to reform … remains difficult in India. With the farm sector accounting for 25 percent of GDP and 60 percent of employment, there is a … within economy-wide frameworks may be effective in evaluating impacts and provoking debate on fundamental reform. Also needed …

There are many explanations for apparently sudden changes in trade liberalization policy in India. This paper examines … some of these explanations against the history and characteristics of trade liberalization policy in India. It proposes an …

There is a strong feeling among especially the West that India is becoming very innovative. The study will take the … reader through the empirical evidence on whether this is indeed the case since the reform process of 1991. The actual …

electricity reform in India, giving special regard to its political economy and regional diversity. It assesses how electricity … reform in India has affected key economic variables that determine sectoral efficiency, prices and investment flows. We use …As developing countries seek to improve their economic prospects, electricity reform has been widely viewed as a …

During 1998-2002, India experienced record public surpluses of wheat and rice, sharply higher government grain subsidy … domestic consumption, India developed a large wheat deficit because of reduced price incentives, weak yield growth, and rising … subsidized consumption. The pronounced market cycles and declining per capita consumption for India’s major food staples are …

€“ and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of growth, but many are destined …-laborintensive manufacturing industries remains on its current trajectory, India is at risk of bifurcating the economy, with those benefiting from …

True to the spirit of a social-democratic State, India had originally evolved her power development policy, and … power sector in India, at the initiation of the World Bank that has also lit up an informed atmosphere of debates and … represent about one-third of the reported cost of electricity supply in India in 1997-98! And this is regardless of a number of …

proxy for income) of NSS surveys, in Kerala as compared to the pattern at all- India and major states during pre and post … reform periods. [WP no. 401] …