Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia

✍ Scribed by Raghbendra Jha (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 417
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Overview of the Volume Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Recent Developments in the Bangladesh Economy....Pages 11-27
The Political Economy of Recent Economic Growth in India....Pages 28-51
Economic Reforms in Nepal: Performance and Prospects....Pages 52-75
Recent Macroeconomic Developments and Implications for Poverty and Employment in Pakistan....Pages 76-101
Liberalisation and Industrial Growth: Lessons from Sri Lanka....Pages 102-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Climate Change Policy for India....Pages 121-150
The Millennium Development Goals for India: How Attainable?....Pages 151-184
Expenditure Implications of India’s State-Level Fiscal Crisis....Pages 185-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Financial Sector Reforms in India: A Stocktake....Pages 209-224
Major Indian ICT Firms and their Approaches Towards Achieving Quality....Pages 225-248
Privatization and Public Enterprise Reform: A Suggestive Action Plan....Pages 249-269
RTAs and South Asia: Options in the Wake of Cancun Fiasco....Pages 270-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Governance Issues in India and Australian Business....Pages 287-304
Recent Trends in FDI Flows and Prospects for India....Pages 305-322
Foreign Investment in Nepal....Pages 323-339
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth: India, 1957 to 1997....Pages 343-368
Growth, Inequality and Structural Adjustment: An Empirical Interpretation of the S-Curve for the Indian Economy....Pages 369-383
Rural Poverty Reduction Strategy for South Asia....Pages 384-401
Back Matter....Pages 402-407

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Asian Economics; e-Business/e-Commerce; Economic Growth

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