The Indian Economy: Policies, Practices and Heresies

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Cover The Indian Economy Plicies, Practies and Heresies Copyright Contents Preface From Dreamers to Copiers Priorities Messed Up Touting the New Approach Spontaneous Outbursts A Leaking Pitcher The Gandhian Plan The Roy Plan Regionalisation A Blueprint for Progress Income and Savings Holding Consumption The Pied Piper One Common Stock 'Jobless Growth' Agriculture-It Still Makes and Breaks The Prime Mover Watershed Developments Growing Polarisation A Maze of Figures More Labour Needle in a Haystack When the Gamble Fails Terms of Trade Welcome Development No Match Direct payment Insurance Schemes Fared Poorly No Alternative Credit Cards Spreading the Tentacles The Old Game De-Industrialisation Opening Up Farm Trade Genes in Use Organic Foods Farmers' Sons, Grandsons Middlemen Two Cheers for Savings Not the Best Audience A Moral The Oil Magic Tax-Driven Savings Quality of Savings The Peeling off The New Catchword Bills Passed on Pools of Savings Traumas of Taxation Tax Reforms Direct Versus Indirect Taxes The Fiscal Divide Demands of Equity 'Importing' Fiscal Features Farm Income Tax Clearly Unbalanced Clearly Overused Zero-Tax Companies Impulse, Motivation, Message The First Tax Cut Deficit Financing-Anyone For a New Ball Game? The US Instance IMF Firmans If There Were No Deficit Financing Some Extra Funds Success only Counts Chalta Hai Attitude Deficits, Debts, Dangers The Alternatives Living Dangerously Who will Pull Up a Government? Lakshman Rekha Additions Okay, Why not Subtractions? When Other Parameters are Brought In What Happened in Those Years? A Broadened View Key Factor: The Time Gap The Big Picture Where dose all the Money go? Three Board Heads of Spending Idustry, Flavour of the Day A Kind of Resistance Personal Fiefdom the Under-Production Game Non-Development Expenditure Capital-Output Ratio Delayed Projects Delaying Factors Cost Overruns Technical Problems The Defence Factor Defence Imports Other Views To Market, To Market Market Signals Dengers of an Open Market Goliath of a Brand An Innovator Road to Success Taste of Competition Toddler's Wobbles Gauging a Market's Need Consumption Patterns Inelastic Demand Excise Duty Factor A False Glow 'Honorary Tax Gatherers' Stagflation more Flexible Could Nothing be Done?-I Fighting Corruption, Blank Mpney Secret Funds Black Money Discount in Tax Deficit Financing-or Deficit in Financing Ingenuity? Projects, Funds Outline in Budget Good House-Keeping Checking Project Delays Capacity Utilisation and Underutilisation Creating a Brand Image Unfixing Public Sector Fixation-or is it Private Sector Fixation? Wide off the Mark Shroff Committee Family Silver Magic Formula Family Planning: Time for Reorientation Several Updates Three Tbrust Areas The Bimraru States Not Made Target-Specific Nothing Special for Laggards Lacks Demographic Perspective Good and Bad NGO's Farmers Suffer Most Twist Comes at the Tail Hand in Glove Consumer Movement Consumer Protection Act Government as Trader Trade, the All-important Bridge Direct and Indirect Taxes: Need for a Better Balance Tax farm Income above a Minimum Fiscal Beasts of Burden Community's Accountability for Neighbour' Woes Could Nothig be Done?-II Agriculture: A Neglected Lifeline A Support System Corporate Farming Indian Price Set Remotely Local Area Network Adding Value Locally Succes in Milk Marketing Credit Availability-Ultimate Factor A Bible on Farm Inputs Optimum Matchinng of Inputs Assembly Line in Rural Areas Crop Insurance-the Best that Could Happen A Bignning Made Zero-based Pricing and Inflation Indexing of Interest Rates A Random Check of Price Histories Gain from Inflation Different Rates for Different People Policy on Savings: Clearing the Muddle Redeemable Bond for Savers Labour Pains Wanted: Special Skill For Meaningful Reforms Employment Budget Job Losses and Gain in Budget The Accumulating Dregs Consumption Policy Consumption Poverty, Per Capita Income Dealing at Both Macro and Micro Ends TVs Everywhere, Not Drinking Water Absence of Entrepreneurial Dynamics A Look at New Enrtrepreneurs Tiny Sector Fares Worst Odds Facing New Enterprise 'Rights of Admission Reserved' Changes in 'changes' Churning of Values Poverty Line and Calories Big Industries, Big Industrialists Political Chessboard The New India Basic Question Focus on Self-government Track Records A Wild Lust for Money March of Consumerism Gone are the Crude Ways Alibi for Ignorance Index