This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states. It provides a comprehensive study of disparity and deepens insight into understanding processes of economic and...

Since independence, India had followed the mixed economy framework by combining the advantages of the market economic system with those of the planned economic system. India's economic reforms began slowly in the 1980s, and then accelerated under the pressure of an external crisis with internal...

Inequality is a global concern, for its social and human consequences, and its impact on the pace and pattern of economic growth. In India and Brazil, this issue has received increasing attention in recent years. In Brazil, inequality grew until the 1980s, when it reached extreme levels, but has...