Sudoku of India's growth
- New Delhi B.S. Books 2009
- 275 p.
In The Sudoku of India's Growth, Arvind Virmani finds the key to India's journey to high growth, and identifies areas which have been, and will remain, crucial to the future: good governance, in terms of the supply of public and quasi-public goods; labour and education reform; entrepreneur-led growth; and administrative and institutional changes such as the unique identity number, the multi-application smart card and the public accountability information system.
In charting this path to the future, Virmani analyses independent India's chequered growth history-a story of India's uniqueness among Asian high growth economies. Starting from the environment that preceded the market reforms phase, he scrutinises policies and strategies and the reasons why some worked while others failed. Not only that, he also studies the one factor that inevitably stymies the upward march-poverty and its attendant evils. This analysis of past experience allows Virmani to recommend a growth path that is steady and secure, and beneficial to all.
As someone who has been part of the government in various capacities, Arvind Virmani writes with the advantage of knowing the system. It is only natural that his is a voice of authority. This volume illustrates that perfectly