The Oxford handbook of the Indian economy / edited by Chetan Ghate.

1. Introduction - Chetan Ghate ; Section I: India's Historical Development ; 2. India and the World Economy: 1757-1947 - Tirthankar Roy ; 3. Battles Half Won: The Political Economy of India's Growth and Economic Policy Since Independence - Sadiq Ahmed, Ashutosh Varshney ; Section II: New Insights into Tackling Rural Poverty ; 4. Estimating Rural Poverty: Distributional Outcomes, Evaluations, and Policy Responses - M. Suryanarayana ; 5. Micro-finance: The SHG Linkage Program - Prabal Roy Chowdhury ; 6. Micro-insurance: A Case Study of the Indian Rainfall Insurance Market - Xavier Gines, James Vickrey, Lev Menand, Robert Townsend ; 7. Caste and Upward Mobility - Vegard Iversen ; Section III: Industrialization ; 8. Performance of Indian Manufacturing in the Post Reform Period - Poonam Gupta, Utsav Kumar ; 9. Informal Sector and the Developing World: Relating Theory and Evidence to India - Sugata Marjit, Saibal Kar ; 10. Structural Transformation and Jobless Growth in the Indian Economy - Rubina Verma ; 11. Development, Displacement and Food Security: Land Acquisition for Industrialization - Abhirup Sarkar ; Section IV: Social Infrastructure and the Demographic Dividend ; 12. Reforming Primary and Secondary Schooling - Anjini Kochar ; 13. Higher Education Reform - Shyam Sunder ; 14. Health and Health Care Policy in India: The Case for Quality of Care - Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer ; 15. Population Dynamics in India and Implications for Economic Growth - David Bloom ; Section V: Politics and Policy ; 16. The Dynamics and Status of India's Economic Reforms - Nirvikar Singh ; 17. The Political Economy of Infrastructure Spending in India - Stuti Khemani ; 18. Aspects of Bureaucratic Corruption - Gautam Bose ; 19. Distributive Conflict and Economic Policy: Some Thoughts on Political Economy - Pranab Bardhan ; 20. Economic Growth and Ecological Sustainability in India - Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Priya Shyamsundar ; Section VI: Macroeconomic Policy Reform ; 21. Fiscal Rules in India: Are they Effective? - William Buiter, Urjit Patel ; 22. Financial Frictions and Monetary Policy Transmission in India - Ken Kletzer ; 23. Monetary Policy, Capital Flows, and the Exchange Rate - Partha Sen ; 24. India's Trade and Exchange Rate Policies: Understanding the BOP Crisis and the Reforms Thereafter - Rajat Achaarya ; 25. Domestic Financial Sector Reform - Subhashis Gangopadhyay, S.K. Shanthi ; 26. The Convergence Debate and Econometric Approaches: Evidence from India - Samarjit Das ; Section VII: India and the World Economy ; 27. The Globalization Debate and India - Priya Ranjan; Devashish Mitra ; 28. India at the WTO: From Uruguay to Doha and Beyond - Kamal Saggi ; 29. An Estimated DSGE Model of the Indian Economy - Paul Levine, Vasco Gabriel, Bo Yang, Joe Pearlman ; 30. The Development Patterns of India and China: A Perspective with the CES Production Function - Kamhon Kan, Yong Wang ; Looking Ahead ; 31. What more do we want to know about the Indian Economy? - Ashok Kotwal

India's remarkable economic growth in recent years has made it one of the fastest growing economies in the world. This Oxford Handbook reflects India's growing economic importance on the world stage, and features research on core topics by leading scholars to understand the Indian economic miracle and the obstacles India faces in transforming itself into a modern 21st-century economy.