Changing Indian economic order / edited by S. Murty

Today, various malaises of the econo mies such as stagnation and sickness, pov erty and unemployment, debt burden and inflation, trade and fiscal imbalances, per sonal inequalities and regional disparities, smuggling and black money, inefficiency and corruption have put question marks be fore the prevailing economic policies and practices. The whole world is shifting fast towards a new economic order.

The present volume presents an ana lytical picture on the diverse issue of the Changing Indian Economic Order. Many reforms are taking place to overdo the se vere constraints of the Indian Economy. Privatisation of undertakings, liberalisation of the economy on internal and external front, making the Indian currency fully convertible on trade account, putting the economy to the threshold of globalisation, taking care of the internal and external debts, revising economic policy planning in different sectors of the economy such as agriculture, industry, trade etc are some of the issues worth consideration and analysis.

This book brings together the ideas and philosophy of eminent scholars, on these issues, at one place. The book is divided into six sections on Privatisation, Liberali sation, Globalisation, Convertibility of Rupee, External and Internal Debt, and Economic Policy Planning, consisting of twenty-eight papers on these important facets. Renowned academicians and univer sity professors have contributed to this book.