India [electronic resource] : reducing poverty, accelerating development / World Bank.
Reducing poverty, and providing for minimum needs, is the ultimate yardstick against which to measure development. To this end, the study outlines India's growth rate, improved social indicators, and poverty reduction since the 1970s, but specifies that, despite this progress, poverty is a seri...
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New Delhi, India :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | World Bank country study.
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Table of Contents:
- Overview
- Poverty reduction : progress and challenges
- Improving health and education for the poor
- Reducing poverty faster : the role of state fiscal and sectoral reforms
- Good governance : the business of government
- Improving infrastructure to reduce poverty and support growth
- Increasing the demand for labour : deregulation to increase export growth, agricultural growth, and labour market flexibility
- Raising and using capital well : the financial system and corporate governance
- Growth, macroeconomic developments, and policies.