The government of India has been introducing industrial policy from time to time since independence. The purpose was always same, to improve the industrial sector, to increases the growth rate of the economy. But as the economic, political and legal condit...
The seeds of liberalisation were sown from the mid-1980s by the Rajiv Gandhi government. This strengthened the power of management and weekend that of the trade unions. This process was accelerated since July 1991 when the Government of India introduced its New Economy Policy (NEP) to open the...
While this notion receives considerable support, at least in theory, critics also point to the inability of governments to precisely identify sectors or firms that industrial policy should target. They also allude to corruption and rent-seeking induced by government intervention as well as deficiencies...
Ever since independence, concern for health has been of major and priority importance in Indian planning. National health policy has affirmed the aim of effective health care for all by the year 2000. Keeping this in view, the government of India has enacted a number of legislations on safety...
Greenwald B, Stiglitz JE (2012) Learning and Industrial policy: implications for Africa. Paper presented at new thinking on industrial development: implications for Africa for the International Economic Association Google Scholar Hosono A (2015) Industrial transformation and quality of growth. In: Hadd...
Outside Europe, Siberia of the former USSR and India may be regarded as the ground where regional policies were applied more thoroughly. It is in the field of urban containment and comprehensive housing supply that New Towns have performed well almost everywhere. Coordination of various policy ...
Noman, A. (2013). Infant Capitalists, Infant Industries and Infant Economies: Trade and Industrial Policies at Early Stages of Industrialization in Africa and Elsewhere. In: Stiglitz, J.E., Yifu, J.L., Patel, E. (eds) The Industrial Policy Revolution II. International Economic Association Se...
The New Economic Policy (NEP) was a continuation and elaboration of Lenin’s plan, outlined in the spring of 1918, to establish the foundations of a socialist economy. From the very first years of the NEP there was a marked growth of industrial output. Between 1921 and 1923 the volume of...
Thus, the so-called Washington Consensus (Williamson, 1990; 2002), which began as a commonsensical and limited set of policy prescriptions for Latin American and, later, for the transition economies of the former Soviet Bloc, became a doctrinaire template for all countries. It stressed ...
Policy Frameworks for International Agricultural and Rural Development R.D. Norton, in Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems, 2014 Pricing Policies Many countries have experimented with controls on the prices of basic commodities but they have almost invariably ended up abandoning them sooner or ...