Oxford handbook of the Indian economy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Chetan Ghate -- India's historical development -- India and the world economy : 1757-1947 / Tirthankar Roy -- Battles half won : political economy of India's growth and economic policy since independence / Sadiq Ahmed and Ashutosh Varshney -- New insights into tackling rural poverty -- Estimating rural poverty : distributional outcomes, evaluations, and policy responses / M. H. Suryanarayana -- Microfinance : the SHG linkage program / Prabal Roy Chowdhury -- Microinsurance : a case study of the Indian rainfall index insurance market / Xavier Giné, James Vickrey, Lev Menand -- Caste and upward mobility / Vegard Iversen -- Industrialization -- Performance of Indian manufacturing in the postreform period / Poonam Gupta -- Informal sector and the developing world : relating theory and evidence to India / Sugata Marjit -- Structural transformation and jobless growth in the Indian economy / Rubina Verma -- Development, displacement, and food security : land acquisition in India / Abhirup Sarkar -- Social infrastructure and the demographic dividend -- Reforming primary and secondary schooling / Anjini Kochar -- Higher education reforms in India / Shyam Sunder -- Health and health care policy in India : the case for quality of care / Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer -- Population dynamics in India and implications for economic growth / David E. Bloom -- Politics and policy -- The dynamics and status of India's economic reforms / Nirvikar Singh -- Political economy of infrastructure spending in India / Stuti Khemani -- Aspects of bureaucratic corruption / Gautam Bose -- Distributive conflicts and Indian economic policy : some notes on political economy / Pranab Bardhan -- Economic growth and ecological sustainability in India / Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Priya Shyamsundar -- Macroeconomic policy reform -- Fiscal rules in India : are they effective? / Willem H. Buiter -- Financial frictions and monetary policy transmission in India / Kenneth Kletzer -- Monetary policy, capital flows, and the exchange rate / Partha Sen -- India's trade and exchange-rate policies : understanding the BOP crisis and the reforms thereafter / Rajat Acharyya -- Domestic financial sector reforms / Subhashis Gangopadhyay -- The convergence debate and econometric approaches : evidence from India / Samarjit Das -- India and the world economy -- The globalization debate and India / Priya Ranjan -- India at the WTO : from Uruguay to Doha and beyond / Kamal Saggi -- An estimated DSGE model of the Indian economy / Paul Levine, Vasco Gabriel, Bo Yang, Joseph Pearlman -- Development patterns in India and China : perspective with a CES production function / Kamhon Kan, Yong Wang -- Looking ahead -- What more do we want to know about the Indian economy? / Ashok Kotwal.