India Reducing Poverty, Accelerating Development

by The World Bank

• ISBN13: 9780195655032
• ISBN10: 0195655036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This report on India for 2000 focuses on poverty reduction and sustainable development.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Boxes	x
List of Figures	xi
List of Annexes	xii
List of Annex Tables	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Economic Development Data	xviii
India Social Indicators	xxi
Overview	1	(1)
Progress and Problems in Poverty Reduction	1	(3)
Potential Problems in Accelerating Poverty Reduction, Sustaining Growth	4	(2)
A Second Wave of Reforms to Reduce Poverty Faster	6	(2)
Circumstances Propitious for Reforms and Acceleration of Growth	8	(1)
Issues for Further Analysis	9	(1)
Poverty Reduction: Progress and Challenges	10	(11)
Overview	10	(1)
Poverty Reduction: The Long View from the 1950s to the early 1990s	11	(3)
Reduction in Poverty in the Mid-1990s: A Mixed Picture	14	(2)
Macroeconomic Concerns: Inflation and Agricultural Performance	16	(1)
Divergence in Poverty Reduction between States	17	(1)
Summary	18	(3)
Improving Health and Education for the Poor	21	(12)
Overview	21	(1)
Education and Health Outcomes in India	22	(2)
Characteristics of Education and Health Services	24	(4)
A Similar Story in Health and Education Services for the Poor	28	(1)
Solutions being Found in Education and Health	29	(2)
A Way Forward: Delivering More and Better Education and Health to the Poor	31	(2)
Reducing Poverty Faster: The Role of State Fiscal and Sectoral Reforms	33	(13)
Overview	33	(1)
Differential Growth and Widening Disparities among States	34	(3)
State-level Reforms to Reduce Poverty	37	(1)
Cutting the States' Fiscal Deficits and Raising their Development Spending	37	(3)
Reforming Power and Irrigation at the State Level	40	(2)
Decentralization: Emerging Issues and the Eleventh Finance Commission	42	(4)
Good Governance: The Business of Government	46	(16)
Overview	46	(2)
Rule of Law, Contract Enforcement, and the Business Environment	48	(3)
Improving Public Administration: Strengthening Performance Incentives and Accountability in a Downsized Civil Service	51	(1)
Sound Budgetary and Financial Management	52	(4)
Improving Public Services through Effective Decentralization	56	(6)
Improving Infrastructure to Reduce Poverty and Support Growth	62	(12)
Overview	62	(2)
India's Public Provision of Infrastructure	64	(2)
Attracting Private Investment in Infrastructure---Evolving Policies	66	(3)
Developing Specialist Regulatory Agencies	69	(5)
Increasing the Demand for Labour: Deregulation to Increase Export, Growth, Agricultural Growth, and Labour Market Flexibility	74	(15)
Overview	74	(1)
Deregulation to Increase Trade, Growth, and Labour Demand	75	(7)
Improving Labour Market Flexibility	82	(4)
Improving Agriculture's Contribution to Development	86	(3)
Raising and Using Capital Well: The Financial System and Corporate Governance	89	(13)
Sound Financial System to Allocate Credit and Reduce Vulnerability	91	(8)
Strengthening the Framework for Corporate Governance	99	(3)
Growth, Macroeconomic Developments, and Policies	102	(28)
Overview	102	(1)
Economic Growth in 1998--9 and over the Longer Run	103	(3)
Inflation and Monetary Policy	106	(2)
Reducing the Fiscal Deficit and Realigning Government to Speed Up Development and Reduce Vulnerability	108	(11)
Balance of Payments	119	(11)
India's Development Prospects	130	(3)
Bibliography	133	(6)
Annex Tables	139	(48)
Statistical Appendix	187