Magnifying Mal-Development: Alternative Economic Survey, India

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

Economic liberalisation in India is causing widespread distress and disenchantment, as evidenced in the 2004 general election results. The Alternative Economic Survey zeroes in on the issues of equity and employment which have been the worst victims of the rush to globalise, liberalise and privatise. Its research brings together the evidence of how the market-friendly current policies being pursued by successive Indian governments are threatening the socio-economic fabric of the country. It seeks to present a realistic, people-centred picture of the state of the Indian economy. It reveals how false is the optimistic impression of development portrayed by the official India Economic Surveys, and tries to evolve the elements of an alternative, people-friendly policy regime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781842775752
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2005
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	8.15(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

The Alternative Survey Group brings together some of India's leading progressive economists with the purpose of critiquing the prevailing orthodoxies of neoliberalism and development, as well as to formulate radical alternatives.
The Alternative Survey Group brings together some of India's leading progressive economists with the purpose of critiquing the prevailing orthodoxies of neoliberalism and development, as well as to formulate radical alternatives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Preface
1. Liberalisation as Development Policy: Magnifying Mal-development - Kamal Nayan Kabra
2. Macroeconomic Scenario - Arun Kumar
3. Poverty - Jaya Mehta
4. Prices and the PDS - V Upadhyay
5. Employment - Hariharan Ramachandran and S L Arora
6. Privatisation - Pranjoy Guha Thakurta
7. Regulation - Simrit Kaur and Kamal N Kabra
8. Agriculture - S P Singh
9. Industry - T Ravi Kumar
10. Public Enterprises - R K Mishra
11. External Sector - Manmohan Krishna and Pushpa Kumari
12. Power Sector - Surinder Kumar
13. Stock Market - K S Chalpati Rao
14. Banking Sector - Hari Om Verma
15. Tea Industry - Vaskar Nandy
16. Urban Sector - T M Thomas
17. Health - Alpana Sagar and Imrana Qadeer
18. Education - Kumaresh Chakravarty
19. Social Exclusion - Vivek Kumar
20. Media - Sanjay Kapoor
21. The Grand Alliance of Fundamentalisms - Vasanthi Raman
22. Social Movements - Prakash Louis
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