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| Abbreviations |
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| Economic Development Data |
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| India Social Indicators |
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| Overview |
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Progress and Problems in Poverty Reduction |
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1 | (3) |
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Potential Problems in Accelerating Poverty Reduction, Sustaining Growth |
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4 | (2) |
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A Second Wave of Reforms to Reduce Poverty Faster |
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6 | (2) |
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Circumstances Propitious for Reforms and Acceleration of Growth |
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8 | (1) |
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Issues for Further Analysis |
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9 | (1) |
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Poverty Reduction: Progress and Challenges |
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10 | (11) |
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10 | (1) |
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Poverty Reduction: The Long View from the 1950s to the early 1990s |
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11 | (3) |
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Reduction in Poverty in the Mid-1990s: A Mixed Picture |
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14 | (2) |
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Macroeconomic Concerns: Inflation and Agricultural Performance |
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16 | (1) |
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Divergence in Poverty Reduction between States |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (3) |
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Improving Health and Education for the Poor |
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21 | (12) |
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21 | (1) |
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Education and Health Outcomes in India |
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22 | (2) |
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Characteristics of Education and Health Services |
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24 | (4) |
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A Similar Story in Health and Education Services for the Poor |
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28 | (1) |
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Solutions being Found in Education and Health |
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29 | (2) |
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A Way Forward: Delivering More and Better Education and Health to the Poor |
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31 | (2) |
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Reducing Poverty Faster: The Role of State Fiscal and Sectoral Reforms |
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33 | (13) |
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33 | (1) |
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Differential Growth and Widening Disparities among States |
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34 | (3) |
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State-level Reforms to Reduce Poverty |
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37 | (1) |
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Cutting the States' Fiscal Deficits and Raising their Development Spending |
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37 | (3) |
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Reforming Power and Irrigation at the State Level |
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40 | (2) |
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Decentralization: Emerging Issues and the Eleventh Finance Commission |
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42 | (4) |
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Good Governance: The Business of Government |
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46 | (16) |
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46 | (2) |
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Rule of Law, Contract Enforcement, and the Business Environment |
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48 | (3) |
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Improving Public Administration: Strengthening Performance Incentives and Accountability in a Downsized Civil Service |
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51 | (1) |
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Sound Budgetary and Financial Management |
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52 | (4) |
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Improving Public Services through Effective Decentralization |
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56 | (6) |
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Improving Infrastructure to Reduce Poverty and Support Growth |
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62 | (12) |
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62 | (2) |
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India's Public Provision of Infrastructure |
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64 | (2) |
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Attracting Private Investment in Infrastructure---Evolving Policies |
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66 | (3) |
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Developing Specialist Regulatory Agencies |
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69 | (5) |
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Increasing the Demand for Labour: Deregulation to Increase Export, Growth, Agricultural Growth, and Labour Market Flexibility |
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74 | (15) |
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74 | (1) |
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Deregulation to Increase Trade, Growth, and Labour Demand |
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75 | (7) |
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Improving Labour Market Flexibility |
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82 | (4) |
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Improving Agriculture's Contribution to Development |
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86 | (3) |
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Raising and Using Capital Well: The Financial System and Corporate Governance |
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89 | (13) |
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Sound Financial System to Allocate Credit and Reduce Vulnerability |
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91 | (8) |
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Strengthening the Framework for Corporate Governance |
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99 | (3) |
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Growth, Macroeconomic Developments, and Policies |
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102 | (28) |
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102 | (1) |
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Economic Growth in 1998--9 and over the Longer Run |
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103 | (3) |
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Inflation and Monetary Policy |
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106 | (2) |
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Reducing the Fiscal Deficit and Realigning Government to Speed Up Development and Reduce Vulnerability |
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108 | (11) |
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119 | (11) |
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India's Development Prospects |
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130 | (3) |
| Bibliography |
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133 | (6) |
| Annex Tables |
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139 | (48) |
| Statistical Appendix |
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