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The book is a concise edition of The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century by Ashima Goyal. Select chapters from the original have been compiled to give students of economics a brief but comprehensive overview of the Indian Economy, contributing to a finer understanding of the interactions between domestic strengths, external opportunities and government interventions. Acknowledged experts delve into the unique features of Indias growth path and bring to fore the various aspects of Indias performance that now attract global attention, such as macroeconomic policy coordination, monetary policy institutions and practices, the effect of openness and of global economic integration, poverty and the degree of inclusion, bottlenecks in infrastructure, and the performance of major sectors such as agriculture, industry and finance.Table of Contents: List of Tables & Figures; Introduction by Ashima Goyal; Drivers of Growth: Sources and Sectors Laveesh Bhandari and Sumita Kale; After Liberalizing Reforms: Public Policy at a Crossroads Pulapre Balakrishnan; Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Outcomes and Coordination Romar Correa; Monetary Policy Transmission in India: Interplay of Rate and Quantum Channels K. Kanagasabapathy, Rekha A. Bhanagoankar, and Shruti Pandey; Openness and Growth in the Indian Economy Soumyen Sikdar; Reforms and Global Economic Integration of the Indian Economy: Emerging Patterns, Challenges, and Future Directions Nagesh Kumar; Poverty and Inequality: Redesigning Interventions Raghbendra Jha and Anurag Sharma; Caste, Gender, and Class: Dynamism or Statis? Ashwini Deshpande; Infrastructure: Source of Growth or Bottleneck? Ram Singh and Param Jit; Promoting SEZs as a Strategy of Industialization and Lessons Learn Aradhna Aggarwal; Agriculture in India: Performance, Challenges, and Opportunities S. Mahendra Dev, Srijit Mishra, and Vijay Laxmi Pandey; New Sources of Dynamism in the Industry Bandi Ram Prasad; 13.The Financial Sector in India: An Overview Rajesh Chakrabarti; Index; About the Editor and Contributors
