A4
Hard-cover
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2006
Pages: 638
ISBN: 8171884881
INR 1295
This volume contains a set of papers on Indian industrialisation in the context of market-enhancing and trade-liberalising reforms that have been taking place. It begins with tracing shifts in Indian industrial policy since independence. The papers, presented in five sections, throw light on the various facets of the remarkable transformation of the Indian economy with reference to industrialisation, an area of major interest to Professor K.L. Krishna, to whom the volume is dedicated.
The first section focuses on technical efficiency and total factor productivity growth. Though technological change is known to be the most fundamental driver of sustained economic growth, its measurement, however, has been beset with several conceptual and methodological problems.
This section deals with these important issues. Urbanisation, an inevitable concomitant of industrialisation, industrial labour absorption and infrastructure required mostly, if not wholly, for the industrial sector constitute the theme of the second section.
The third section highlights the role of international trade in the Indian development strategy and the consequent changes in trade policies and their impact on the Indian manufacturing sector. In section four, foreign direct investment, which is being encouraged with a view to facilitating technology transfer and impact industrial performance, is dealt with.
There are several contentious issues in this area relating to the role of multinational enterprises, which are examined in this section. The final section deals with the environmental consequences of rapid industrialisation so as to design environmental policy within which one can promote adoption of clean development mechanism.
Suresh D Tendulkar
Centre for Development Economics
Delhi School of Economics, Delhi.
Arup Mitra
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.
K Narayanan
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Deb Kusum Das
Ramjas College
University of Delhi, Delhi.
C. RANGARAJAN
Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
BISHWANATH GOLDAR
Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
SUBHASH C. RAY
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, USA
ZHANG PING
Fraud Risk Manager, e-bay, 2211 North First St, San Jose CA 95131, USA
T.A. BHAVANI
Reader, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
ANITA KUMARI
Sir Ratan Tata Fellow,Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
ABDUL AZEEZ E.
Researcher, Faculty of Economics,University of Groningen, The Netherlands
EDWIN S. MILLS
Professor, Emeritus of Real Estate and Finance,Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, USA
ARUP MITRA
Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
PRASAD SANKAR BHATTACHARYA
Graduate Student, Florida International University, Miami, USA
SURESH D. TENDULKAR
Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
K. LAL
Researcher, UNU-INTECH, Institute for New Technologies,Masstricht, The Netherlands
SANJEEVAN KAPSHE
Professor, Railway Staff College, Vadodara, India
ISHER JUDGE AHLUWALIA
Chairperson, Board of Trustees, IFPRI, Washington, USA
HIRANYA MUKHOPADHYAY
Economist, Asian Development Bank, New Delhi, India
DEB KUSUM DAS
Reader, Department of Economics, Ramjas College,University of Delhi, India
SAIKAT SINHA ROY
Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India
V.N. BALASUBRAMANYAM
Emeritus Professor of Economics,Department of Economics,Lancaster University Management School, UK
DAVID SAPSFORD
Edward Gonner, Professor of Applied Economics,Management School, University of Liverpool, UK
NAGESH KUMAR
Director General, Research and Information Systemfor Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India
ARADHANA AGARWAL
Reader, Department of Business Economics,University of Delhi, India
K. NARAYANAN
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay(Mumbai), India
NEELAM SINGH
Reader, Department of Economics, Lady Shriram College,
University of Delhi, India
K.U. UMAKRISHNAN
Research Associate, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, India
U. SANKAR
Honorary Professor, Madras School of Economics,Chennai, India
M.N. MURTY
Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
SURENDER KUMAR
Associate Professor, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India
SMITA MISRA
Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank, New Delhi, India
SIMANTI BANERJEE
Economist, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
New Delhi, India
SARMILA BANERJEE
Professor, Department of Economics, Calcutta University, India