Infrastructure Financing in India (Hardcover)

Dr Kumar V. Pratap

ISBN 10: 0198884931 / ISBN 13: 9780198884934

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2024

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Hardcover. Governments the world over want to spend more on infrastructure (the benchmark for developing countries is 7-8% of GDP per annum) to lay the foundation for sustained and inclusive growth. India is no exception. It realizes that more needs to be spent on infrastructure for the country to regain its position as the fastest growing large economy in the world. While India spent about 7.2% of its GDP on infrastructure during the Eleventh Plan period (2008-12), thisnumber has recently come down to approximately 5%. The backdrop of the book is the ambitious National Infrastructure Plan (NIP); the Task Force report on the NIP was finalized in April 2020. Sinceinfrastructure investment is crucial to faster and inclusive growth, it is timely that the NIP is actioned now, given that the Indian economy contracted to 7.3% in the financial year 2020-21. This book discusses various aspects of infrastructure financing in detail, with a major section devoted to green financing of infrastructure. Infrastructure investment is now crucial to faster and inclusive growth, given that the Indian economy contracted to 7.3% in the financial year 2020-21. This book discusses various aspects of infrastructure financing in detail, with a major section devoted to green financing of infrastructure. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infrastructure Financing in India (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198884931
• ISBN 13: 9780198884934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Infrastructure investment is now crucial to faster and inclusive growth, given that the Indian economy contracted to 7.3% in the financial year 2020-21. This book discusses various aspects of infrastructure financing in detail, with a major section devoted to green financing of infrastructure.

About the Author

Kumar V Pratap, Senior Economic Adviser, Government of India, Manshi Gupta, Deputy Director in Infrastructure Policy and Planning Division, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Kumar V Pratap is a Senior Economic Adviser in the Government of India and has earlier worked with the Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Finance as Joint Secretary, Infrastructure Policy & Finance in New Delhi, and World Bank in Washington DC. Pratap is the author of Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure: Managing the Challenges (Springer Singapore, 2017). He had been a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business Hyderabad, and Indian Institute of Management Shillong, teaching a course on 'Infrastructure and the Private Sector'. He holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and a PhD from University of Maryland, USA.


Manshi Gupta is Deputy Director in Infrastructure Policy and Planning Division, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. She has a Master's in Economics from Delhi School of Economics.