Indian Economy - Problems of Development & Planning
by A N Agrawal

(ISBN:81-7328-110-6 ~ Pub Year: 2003 ~ Pages:742 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Wishwa Prakashan)

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In its present 29th edition, the book has been thoroughly revised with a view to highlight the recent trends and developments in the country’s economy as also the policy-measures adopted by the Government to tackle the changing economic scenario and problems.

Three new sections on Task force on Taxes, the Twelfth Finance Commission and Progress under the Ninth plan have been added at appropriate places. Besides, Chapter 58 deals with the main aspects of the current Tenth Five-Year Plan. All this will enable the reader to properly understand the present state of the economy and the progress that it is making.

To equip the reader with the analytical tools for understanding the Indian economy, the first two chapters explain the economics of underdevelopment and development. The next two chapters give an overview of the past and the present state of the Indian economy.

Chapters on natural resources, human resources (encompassing population, labour-force, and human capital), physical capital and infrastructure describe the productive capacity of the economy.

Considerable space is then devoted to the study of national income, its industrial origin and its distribution as also poverty. Sectoral problems bearing on agriculture, industry and services have been dealt with in detail.

Current problems like price-rise, deficit in government budgets, deficits in balance of payments, unemployment, farm-size and efficiency, industrial sickness, foreign direct investments, debt burden, convertible rupee system, privatization of public sector etc. have been given due place and analysed in detail. Planning and its various aspects have been comprehensively explained. These include: features and objectives of planning; centralized and decentralized planning; strategy of development; financing of plans; progress under planning with a section evaluation of Ninth Plan. A separate chapter deals with the main aspects of the current Tenth Plan. The last chapter of the book highlights the place of India in the world economy.


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