Develolpment experiences in China and India

There is now enough data for fruitful quantitative studies of the Chinese economy and for comparative studies involving
China. With the improvement in government-to-government relations between China and India, direct academic exchanges between the two countries have now become possible. This volume is a testimony to the change which has taken place. It is a collection of papers on China and India presented at a conference in New Delhi. The conference was attended by Chinese, Indian and foreign scholars. Besides the changes in the field of education and scholarship, the economic reforms have changed the status of China. Previously, China had appeared suigeneris with unique institutions and a particular economic logic of its own. With its membership of international organisations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, China is
now increasingly perceived as what it has always been, a low-income developing economy. With market oriented reforms and
the end of campaign style politics, Chinese problems look familiar and in many respects not that different from those in
other developing economies.
Comparative studies of the Chinese and Indian economies are long over-due and this work is a welcome development.