Contents;
.List of Tables;
List of Figures;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction: The Institutional Basis of Economic Reforms
Anthony Lanyi
PART I;
Political Economy of Reform
1 Indian Fiscal Federalism: Political Economy and Issues for Reform
Kenneth Kletzer and Nirvikar Singh
2 Fragmented Legislatures and Electoral Systems: The Indian Experience
Bhaskar Dutta
3 The Political Economy of Privatisation in India
Anand Gupta
4 Centre-State Relations in India and Brazil: Privatisation of Electricity and Banking
Leslie Elliott Armijo and Prem Shankar Jha
PART II;
Fiscal Reform
5 Reforming Indian Income Tax Enforcement
Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee
6 Fiscal Adjustment and the Role of State Governments in India
M. Govinda Rao
7 Tax Amnesties in India: An Empirical Evaluation
Arindam Das-Gupta and Dilip Mookherjee
PART III;
Reforming Public Goods Delivery
8 The Health and Medical Sector in India: Potential Reforms and Problems
Anil B. Deolalikar and Prem S. Vashishtha
9 Fertility Literacy and the Institution of Child Labour
Mukesh Eswaran
PART IV;
Agricultural Parastatals and Rural Governance
10 The Food Corporation of India: Successes and Failures in Indian Foodgrain Marketing
Ashok Gulati, Satu Kdhkonen and Pradeep Sharma
11 Economic Reforms and Agricultural Parastatals: The Case of the Cotton Corporation of India and the
Maharashtra Federation
Ashok Gulati and Sangeeta Shroff
12 Panchayati Raj in India: Problems and Prospects
Chandrika Gulati
PART V;
Reforming the Industrial and Financial Structure
13 Regulation and Reform of the Financial Sector in India: An Analysis of the Underlying Incentives; Pradeep Agrawal
14 Labour Markets as Social Institutions in India; Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri
15 Labour Policies, Employment and Worker Earnings: Indian and International Experiences
Pradeep Agrawal
About the Editors and Contributors
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