1st Edition

Political Economy, Growth and Liberalisation in India, 1991-2008

By Matthew McCartney Copyright 2010
276 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The phenomenal growth and liberalisation of the Indian economy has been the subject of extensive scholarly documentation and competing interpretations. This book examines the key period of liberalisation in India from 1991 to 2008. It analyses the relationship between growth and liberalisation and, in particular, the recent ‘miracle growth rate’ and considers its sustainability in the current... Read more

1. Drawing the Wrong Lessons from History: A Re-evaluation of Planning and State-led Industrialisation in India, 1950-1980  2. A Tale of Two Paradoxes: Growth without Liberalisation after 1980 and Liberalisation without Growth after 1991  3. Convergence and Divergence among States in India: A Dissenting View  4. Sustainable Growth and the Economic Boom after 2003  5. The Intermediate Classes and Liberalisation: A Critical Political Economy of Development in India in the 1990s  6. Mitra and Bardhan A Comparative Political Economy 

Biography

Matthew McCartney is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK.  He is the author of India – The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State, 1951-2007 (also published by Routledge, 2009).