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Title :
STUDIES IN INDIAN ECONOMY
Author / Editor :ED. K. R. GUPTA
Publisher :ATLANTIC
ISBN :8126904860
Original Price : Rs. 695
Binding : Hardback
Year : 1/1/2005
Pages : 416
About The Book
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In recent years India has made all-round rapid progress. The performance of the Indian economy in 2004-05 so far has exceeded expectations formed at the beginning of the year. According to the advance estimate of the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) released on February 7, 2005, the economy is likely to grow 6.9 per cent in 2004-05.
In spite of fast advancement in several fields, India is still suffering from a large fiscal deficit which has risen to an alarming level. During the year 2004-05, the fiscal deficit at the Centre stood at a whopping sum of Rs.1,51,144 crore, i.e. 4.4 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The revenue deficit amounted Rs.95,312 crore. The curve of fiscal deficit has risen sharply from the year 1997-98 mainly because of expenditure on current account. The main reasons for this alarming fiscal deficit are: populist measures of the Central and State Governments, like subsidies on kerosene oil, diesel, petroleum, gas, fertilisers, power for agriculturists, large losses of public sector undertakings, interest payment on ever-increasing public debt, increase in salaries and pensions resulting from the recommendations of Pay Commissions, etc. The global rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S & P) has stated that even the Union Budget 2005-06 shows a lack of success in reducing the country’s deficit burden.
It is hoped that the book would be found useful by the researchers and students of Economics, businessmen, government executives concerned with the formulation and execution of economic policies, parliamentarians and legislators, and the general readers interested in knowing the changes that are taking place in our economy.
About The Author :
Dr. K.R. Gupta, the Editor, is a well-known Economist. He has published about a dozen of books and more than hundred papers in reputed journals, being published in India and abroad. He had been teaching postgraduate classes and guiding research for about two decades in the University of Jammu and Kurukshetra University. He has also worked as an Economist in private as well as in public sector. His last assignment was as Economic Advisor to the Modi Enterprises.
Book Contents : 1. Structural Changes in Indian Economy During
1990s with Special Reference to External Sector
–Manminder Singh and Divye Kumar Sharma
2. Small-Scale Industry: A New Paradigm
–Ram Komal Prasad Prajapati
3. Future Prospects of the Power Sector in India
–J.G. Valan Arasu
4. Role of the State in Information Dissemination for Catalysing Technological Diffusion in Indian
Manufacturing
Vikram Chadha and Sanjeev Dhawan
5. Gender Audit of Budgets—A Case Study of India
–Vibhuti Patel
6. Implications of WTO Agreement on Indian
Agriculture with Particular References to Punjab
–Tejinder Dhaliwal, J.R. Gupta and P.S. Rangi
7. Quality Management in India—Need to Fire
Growth Engine on All Cylinders
–Manoranjan Sharma
8. A Factory a Day Keeps the Poverty and
Un-Employment Away
–K. Sitaramaswamy
9. Fiscal Deficits
–K.R. Gupta
10. Economic Development in India and China
–K.R. Gupta
Appendix: Statistical Tables
List of Statistical Tables
Trade and Balance of Payments
1. India’s Foreign Trade—in US Dollars
2. India’s Foreign Trade—in Rupees
3. Exports of Principal Commodities—in US
Dollars
4. Exports of Principal Commodities—in Rupees
5. Imports of Principal Commodities—in US
Dollars
6. Imports of Principal Commodities—in Rupees
7. Exports of Selected Commodities to Principal
Countries—in US Dollars
8. Exports of Selected Commodities to Principal
Countries—in Rupees
9. Direction of Foreign Trade—in US Dollars 327
10. Direction of Foreign Trade—in Rupees
11. Index Numbers and Terms of Foreign Trade
12. Index Numbers of Exports—Quantum and Unit
Value
13. Index Numbers of Imports—Quantum and Unit
Value
14. India’s Overall Balance of Payments—in US
Dollars
15. India’s Overall Balance of Payments—in Rupees
16. Invisibles by Category of Transactions—in US
Dollars
17. Invisibles by Category of Transactions—in
Rupees
18. Exchange Rate of the Indian Rupee vis-a-vis the SDR, US Dollar, Pound Sterling, D.M./Euro and Japanese Yen (Calendar Year—Annual
Average)
19. Exchange Rate of the Indian Rupee vis-a-vis the SDR, US Dollar, Pound Sterling, D.M./Euro and Japanese Yen (Financial year—Annual
Average and End-year Rates)
20. Indices of Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) and Nominal Effective Exchange rate (NEER) of the Indian Rupee (36-country bilateral
weights) (Calendar year—Annual average)
21. Indices of Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) and Nominal Effective Exchange rate (NEER) of the Indian Rupee (36-country bilateral
weights) (Financial year—Annual average) 380
22. External Assistance (Financial year)
23. NRI Deposits in Dollars—Outstanding
24. NRI Deposits in Rupees—Outstanding
25. Inflows (+)/Outflows (-) Under Various NRI
Deposit Schemes—US. Dollars
26. Inflows (+)/Outflows (-) Under Various NRI
Deposit Schemes—in Rupees
27. Foreign Investment Inflows
28. Foreign Exchange Reserves
29. India’s External Debt—in US Dollars
30. India’s External Debt—in Rupees
External Sector
31. Foreign Exchange Reserves
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