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- Includes current and past economic trends and policy details of Indian economy
- Discusses development policies in various sectors such as population, demographics and poverty; agriculture and industry; and infrastructure
- Is written by a leading expert in policy modeling and quantitative economist with unparalleled policy experience with various Indian and international agencies
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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About the author
Yoginder K. Alagh is professor emeritus/vice-chair of the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research in Ahmedabad and chancellor of the Central University of Gujarat. He is also chair professor at the Punjab University. From 1996 to 1998, he was the minister of state (Independent Charge) in the Government of India, for planning and programme implementation, science, technology and power, and until 2001, a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was vice- chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a member of the Planning Commission, chairman of Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices (BICP) and secretary to the government and chairman of Agricultural Prices Commission (APC), Government of India. Dr. Alagh’s professional experience is in research, policy-making and administration of large research/policy formulation professional groups relating to macro policy and planning, industrial policies and reform, and agricultural planning and policy. He holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia (USA), and has taught at that university, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta as well as at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, USA). He has published extensively in India and abroad and was awarded the prestigious V.K.R.V. Rao Award for Outstanding Research in Economics in 1982. He has been consultant/senior adviser to numerous national and international organizations such as FAO, UNDP, ILO, World Bank, ADB and chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of UNESCO’s Social Science Research Programme (MOST), member council of United Nations University, senior fellow of the World Institute of Development Research (WIDER) and of CIGI in Waterloo. His last book “The Future of Indian Agriculture” (National Book Trust, 2012) generated a lot of interest. He writes a column for well-known Indian newspapers such as the Express Group and the Business Line.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Policy in a Liberalising Economy
Book Subtitle: Indian Reform in this Century
Authors: Yoginder Kumar Alagh
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2817-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2816-9Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2817-6Published: 02 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2191-5504
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 89
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Policy, Development Economics, Development Policy