Home > Academic Books > The Oxford Companion to Economics in India Author(s) : Kaushik Basu (General Editor) Description: As we get into the twenty-first century, the concept of ‘the Indian economy’ has come to encompass a mind-boggling array of topics, phenomena, and complexities. Understanding India’s economy is not just an intellectual challenge, but, with the country emerging as a major global economy, also a requirement.
This unique volume, the first comprehensive resource of its kind on the contemporary Indian economy, aims to address this need. Culled from the collective wisdom and experience of 200 distinguished contributors, including economists, business leaders, policymakers, and analysts, it collates facts with contemporary thinking on the Indian economy, to provide an accessible account of the diverse range of themes and issues relevant to India today.
The more than 200 entries cover the evolution of the Indian economy from relative obscurity to an emergent global force, from the ‘Hindu’ rate of growth to its recent surge. They span the recent cover stories of India’s phenomenal growth, leadership in software and information technology, and outsourcing success, and also document the backwaters—the widespread poverty, farmer suicides, child labour, and the large and impoverished informal sector that houses a majority of India’s labour force. [OUP]Seems like a must read book;“It is and, in fact, has just been accomplished astonishingly well. The Oxford Companion to Economics in India (OUP), edited by Kaushik Basu, weighs in at five kilos and is priced at Rs 2,750 but is worth every naya paisa for its range of subject matter and learning.
Related; Some papers from the book-The Equity Premium in IndiaLarge Dams in IndiaUnemployment, Measure of,Biodiversity in IndiaThe Economics of Dowries in India'Non-banking Financial Intermediaries in India' See also the excellent Ajay Shah’s blog Posted by Marshall Jevons at 1:46 PM
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