• ISBN13: 9788126904860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 20, 2005
• Pages: 416
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 540 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Political Economy

In recent years India has made all-round rapid progress. The performance of the Indian economy in 2004-05 so far has exceeded expectations formed at the beginning of the year. According to the advance estimate of the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) released on February 7, 2005, the economy is likely to grow 6.9 per cent in 2004-05. In spite of fast advancement in several fields, India is still suffering from a large fiscal deficit which has risen to an alarming level. During the year 2004-05, the fiscal deficit at the Centre stood at a whopping sum of Rs.1,51,144 crore, i.e. 4.4 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The revenue deficit amounted Rs.95,312 crore. The curve of fiscal deficit has risen sharply from the year 1997-98 mainly because of expenditure on current account. The main reasons for this alarming fiscal deficit are: populist measures of the Central and State Governments, like subsidies on kerosene oil, diesel, petroleum, gas, fertilisers, power for agriculturists, large losses of public sector undertakings, interest payment on ever-increasing public debt, increase in salaries and pensions resulting from the recommendations of Pay Commissions, etc. The global rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S & P) has stated that even the Union Budget 2005-06 shows a lack of success in reducing the country’s deficit burden. It is hoped that the book would be found useful by the researchers and students of Economics, businessmen, government executives concerned with the formulation and execution of economic policies, parliamentarians and legislators, and the general readers interested in knowing the changes that are taking place in our economy.

Dr. K.R. Gupta, the Editor, is a well-known Economist. He has published about a dozen of books and more than hundred papers in reputed journals, being published in India and abroad. He had been teaching postgraduate classes and guiding research for about two decades in the University of Jammu and Kurukshetra University. He has also worked as an Economist in private as well as in public sector. His last assignment was as Economic Advisor to the Modi Enterprises.

• 1. Structural Changes in Indian Economy During 1990s with Special Reference to External Sector
• –Manminder Singh and Divye Kumar Sharma
• 2. Small-Scale Industry: A New Paradigm
• –Ram Komal Prasad Prajapati
• 3. Future Prospects of the Power Sector in India
• –J.G. Valan Arasu
• 4. Role of the State in Information Dissemination for Catalysing Technological Diffusion in Indian Manufacturing
• Vikram Chadha and Sanjeev Dhawan
• 5. Gender Audit of Budgets: A Case Study of India
• –Vibhuti Patel
• 6. Implications of WTO Agreement on Indian
• Agriculture with Particular References to Punjab
• –Tejinder Dhaliwal, J.R. Gupta and P.S. Rangi
• 7. Quality Management in India Need to Fire Growth Engine on All Cylinders
• –Manoranjan Sharma
• 8. A Factory a Day Keeps the Poverty and Un-Employment Away
• –K. Sitaramaswamy
• 9. Fiscal Deficits
• –K.R. Gupta
• 10. Economic Development in India and China
• –K.R. Gupta
• Appendix: Statistical Tables
• List of Statistical Tables
• Trade and Balance of Payments
• 1. India’s Foreign Trade in US Dollars
• 2. India’s Foreign Trade in Rupees
• 3. Exports of Principal Commodities in US Dollars
• 4. Exports of Principal Commodities in Rupees
• 5. Imports of Principal Commodities in US Dollars
• 6. Imports of Principal Commodities in Rupees
• 7. Exports of Selected Commodities to Principal Countries in US Dollars
• 8. Exports of Selected Commodities to Principal Countriesin Rupees
• 9. Direction of Foreign Trade in US Dollars 327 10. Direction of Foreign Trade in Rupees
• 11. Index Numbers and Terms of Foreign Trade
• 12. Index Numbers of Exports Quantum and Unit Value
• 13. Index Numbers of Imports Quantum and Unit Value
• 14. India’s Overall Balance of Payments in US Dollars
• 15. India’s Overall Balance of Payments in Rupees
• 16. Invisibles by Category of Transactionsin US Dollars
• 17. Invisibles by Category of Transactions in Rupees
• 18. Exchange Rate of the Indian Rupee vis-a-vis the SDR, US Dollar, Pound Sterling, D.M./Euro and Japanese Yen (Calendar Year Annual Average)
• 19. Exchange Rate of the Indian Rupee vis-a-vis the SDR, US Dollar, Pound Sterling, D.M./Euro and Japanese Yen (Financial year Annual Average and End-year Rates)
• 20. Indices of Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) and Nominal Effective Exchange rate (NEER) of the Indian Rupee (36-country bilateral weights) (Calendar year Annual average)
• 21. Indices of Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) and Nominal Effective Exchange rate (NEER) of the Indian Rupee (36-country bilateral weights) (Financial year Annual average) 380
• 22. External Assistance (Financial year)
• 23. NRI Deposits in Dollars Outstanding
• 24. NRI Deposits in Rupees Outstanding
• 25. Inflows (+)/Outflows (-) Under Various NRI Deposit Schemes US. Dollars
• 26. Inflows (+)/Outflows (-) Under Various NRI Deposit Schemes in Rupees
• 27. Foreign Investment Inflows
• 28. Foreign Exchange Reserves
• 29. India’s External Debt in US Dollars
• 30. India’s External Debt in Rupees External Sector
• 31. Foreign Exchange Reserves