Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia

1. Overview of the Volume Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia
Raghbendra Jha

Part I. Recent Macroeconomic Performance in South Asia

2. Recent Developments in the Bangladesh Economy
Mohammad Alauddin

3. The Political Economy of Recent Economic Growth in India
Raghbendra Jha

4. Economic Reforms in Nepal: Performance and Prospects
Prem Jung Thapa, Shyamal Krishna Shrestha

5. Recent Macroeconomic Developments and Implications for Poverty and Employment in Pakistan
Talat Anwar

6. Liberalisation and Industrial Growth: Lessons from Sri Lanka
Prema-Chandra Athukorala, Sisira Jayasuriya

Part II. Emerging Economic Challenges in India

7. Climate Change Policy for India
Warwick J. Mckibbin

8. The Millennium Development Goals for India: How Attainable?
Anil B. Deolalikar

9. Expenditure Implications of India’s State-Level Fiscal Crisis
Stephen Howes, Rinku Murgai, Marina Wes

Part III. Trade, Industrial and Financial Sector Reform in South Asia

10. Financial Sector Reforms in India: A Stocktake
Milind Sathye

11. Major Indian ICT Firms and their Approaches Towards Achieving Quality
Dilip Dutta, Anna Sekhar

12. Privatization and Public Enterprise Reform: A Suggestive Action Plan
Simrit Kaur

13. RTAs and South Asia: Options in the Wake of Cancun Fiasco
Pradeep S. Mehta, Pranav Kumar

Part IV. Foreign Perception of and Foreign Investment in South Asia

14. Governance Issues in India and Australian Business
Desh Gupta, Shri Bhagwan Dahiya

15. Recent Trends in FDI Flows and Prospects for India
Raghbendra Jha

16. Foreign Investment in Nepal
Prema-Chandra Athukorala, Kishor Sharma

Part V. Poverty Alleviation in South Asia

17. Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth: India, 1957 to 1997
Peter Warr

18. Growth, Inequality and Structural Adjustment: An Empirical Interpretation of the S-Curve for the Indian Economy
Narain Sinha

19. Rural Poverty Reduction Strategy for South Asia
Ganesh Thapa

Avainsanat: Economics, Development Economics, Asian Economics, e-Business/e-Commerce, Economic Growth