Liberalization, Growth and Regional Disparities in India
Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades after the large-scale economic reforms in the early 1990s, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of devel
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India Studies in Business and Economics VOLUME 1
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Madhusudan Ghosh
Liberalization, Growth and Regional Disparities in India
Madhusudan Ghosh Department of Economics & Politics Visva- Bharati Santiniketan, Birbhum West Bengal, India
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To My Parents
Preface
The Indian government has been concerned about how to achieve high economic growth with equality and to reduce unemployment and poverty. The issues have been given sharp focus in all the plans, and various policies have been adopted to achieve the objectives. However, it has been perceived that the benefits of the high rates of growth achieved in the last two decades have not reached all sections of the population and all parts of the country in an equitable manner. Recognizing the need to make growth ‘more inclusive’ in terms of the benefits of growth accruing to those sections of the population and to those regions, which have been bypassed by the high rates of growth, the Approach Paper to the
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