India's Reforms How They Produced Inclusive Growth

Name: India's Reforms How They Produced Inclusive Growth
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ISBN: 9780199915187

ISBN-10: 0199915180

ISBN-13: 9780199915187

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya

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When India embraced systematic economic reforms in 1991 and began opening its economy to both domestic and foreign competition, critics argued that they had contributed little to the acceleration of economic growth. Their argument had rested on the claim that growth in the 1990s was no faster than in the 1980s. This claim was quickly refuted on the grounds that when properly evaluated, growth had indeed accelerated in the 1990s and, more importantly, while reforms had been made systematic in 1991, they had actually begun much earlier in the late 1970s. Subsequently, the reforms of the late 1990s and early 2000s have led to a jump in the growth rate from six percent in the 1990s to eight to… nine percent beginning in 2003. The reforms have also led to a major structural change in the economy: the trade to GDP ratio tripled since 1991, there has been a gigantic expansion of foreign investment in India, and sectors such as telecommunications, airlines, and automobiles have expanded at rates much higher than those observed any time in the past. This dramatic turn-around has led the critics to shift ground. They now argue that opening the economy to trade has hurt the poor; that rapid growth is leaving the socially disadvantaged groups behind; and that the reforms have led to increased inequality. They also argue that people themselves do not feel that their fortunes are improving.The five original essays in this volume, topped by a substantial introductory essay summarizing their findings, take these challenges head on. They use large-scale sample surveys and other data to systematically address each of these arguments. They show that trade openness has indeed helped reduce poverty not just in general but also among the socially disadvantaged groups. The contributors to the volume find no evidence whatsoever in favor of a negative impact of trade openness on poverty on any groups. The essays also show that inequality shows no clear trend and is unrelated to trade openness. Peoples responses have also now turned grossly in favor of reforms. Thus, when asked how they feel about the change in their fortunes in the recent past, an overwhelmingly large proportion of individuals from every conceivable group report improvements. Moreover, systematic analysis of the 2009 parliamentary elections show that people now reward the Chief Ministers in states in which they deliver superior growth outcomes and punish those that do not.This book is the first volume in the seriesStudies in Indian Economic Policiesedited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya and published by OUP. It contains the first set of five original papers produced under the auspices of the Columbia Program on Indian Economic Policies housed in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

Book details

List price: $93.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.42" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Contributors



Introduction: Trade, Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy




Reforms and Democracy



Views from the Indian Electorate: Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions with Democracy, Politics, and the Economy




Economic Reforms and Election Outcomes




Trade, Poverty, and Inequality



Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction: New Evidence from Indian States




Growth, Openness, and the Socially Disadvantaged




Trade and Inequality in India



Index 279