Progressive Fiscal Policy in India - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8132105583 ISBN 13: 9788132105589

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Progressive Fiscal Policy in India locates the prevailing fiscal policy in the overall macroeconomic policy regime of the nation. It presents a rigorous critique of the predominance of fiscal conservatism and neoliberal fiscal orthodoxy over the last two decades. The book develops a strong case for bringing forth progressive change in the country′s fiscal policy and explores the role of public policies and institutions in addressing the development deficits confronting the country.

Authored by top economists and policymakers of India, the contributions in this book address issues of equity in our fiscal and macroeconomic policies, which rarely figure, in any meaningful sense, in the mainstream fiscal policy deliberations.

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About the Author:

Praveen Jha is on the faculty of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a visiting faculty at the University of Bremen, Germany since 1999. His major areas of research interest include economics of education, labour economics, agricultural economics and public finance with special focus on the developing countries. He has authored/edited a number of books and monographs, the most recent among which is Public Provisioning for Elementary Education in India (Sage, 2008), and has published several articles in journals published in India and abroad. He has been the honorary economic advisor to the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi, since its inception. He was a member of the Task Force on Labour Laws, constituted by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) and a member of the Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished Task in Land Reforms, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. He also works closely with people’s movements and labour organizations in India.

Review:

The book is a collection of articles by eminent scholars and academics on a range of fiscal policy matters of topical interest to not only policy-makers but also common citizens. The essays are well presented and easy to read even for someone not familiar with the subject of public finance... On the whole, an eminently readable book. 

Author: The Statesman

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8132105583
• ISBN 13: 9788132105589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 516
• Editor: Jha Praveen K