This book, in four sections, aims to provide comprehensive coverage of the Indian economy as per the course(s) outline with original readings as recommended. Section-I covers Macroeconomic Policies and their Impact; Fiscal and Budgetary Developments; the Indian Financial Sector; India’s New Foreign Trade Policy; Labour Regulation. Section-II is devoted to Policies and Performance in Agriculture: Transformation in Indian Agriculture: Growth Inclusiveness and Sustainability; Food Price Inflation: Pre- and Post-Economic Liberalisation; Agriculture and Food Management. Section-III devoted to Policies and Performance in Industry covers: Economic Reforms and Manufacturing Sector Growth; Foreign Direct and Portfolio Investment; Economic Growth with Employment; Make in India: Which Exports Can Drive the Next Wave of Growth?; Employment Problem; and India’s Competition Laws. Section-IV devoted to the Services Sector provides a comprehensive coverage of this leading sector of the Indian economy.

The analysis and discussion covering the four sections in 20 chapters includes contributions by economists and experts:

Rahul Anand

Sarthi Acharya

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Aditya Bhattacharjea

Achin Chakraborty

Rupa Chanda

S. Mahendra Dev

Simon Deakin

Biswajit Dhar

Leena Mary Eapen

Josh Felman

Antara Haldar

Uma Kapila

Kalpana Kochhar

Santosh Mehrotra

Rakesh Mohan

Saurabh Mishra

R. Nagaraj

Nagesh Kumar

Sthanur R. Nair

Manoj Panda

Partha Ray

Shantanu De Roy

Arvind Subramanian

Jayan Jose Thomas

Dr. Uma Kapila, author/editor of several books on Indian economy, retired as Reader, Department of Economics, Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has taught Indian economy to undergraduate students for more than 42 years. Currently, she is Editorial Director, Academic Foundation.