Trade Policy, Industrial Performance, and Private Sector Development in India

by Asian Development Bank

• ISBN13: 9780195694277
• ISBN10: 0195694279
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The volume deals comprehensively with an important aspect of the post-reform Indian economy, the trade policy, industrial performance, and private sector development. It focuses on key challenges faced by policymakers including poverty and inequality, modernizing and improving the performanceof small scale enterprises, and reforming public sector enterprises where the past performances have been unremarkable. Evaluating the critical issues in service-led growth in the economy, the contributors provide a clear picture of the progress, and suggest policy options. They systematicallyexplore the trade-poverty-inequality links and emphasize the need for efficient regulation of the private sector in the current context. The final essay provides a comprehensive treatment of small scale industries in the era of liberalization.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xix
Trade and Industrial Policies to Strengthen Economic Reform: An Overview	p. 1
Critical Issues in India's Service-Led Growth	p. 21
Disinvestment and Privatization in India: Assessment and Options	p. 64
International Trade, Poverty, and Income Inequality: The Indian Experience during the Reform Period 1985-99	p. 97
Non-Tariff Barriers Affecting India's Exports	p. 141
Recent Development in the Regulatory Framework for the Private Sector in Infrastructure	p. 189
Small and Medium Enterprise in India Today: Overcoming Policy Constraints to Achieving Rapid Growth in a Globalizing Economy	p. 246
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