India's economic performance in the post-reforms period: A tale of mixed messages

Ranjan Ray

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0454-4_3

India's economic performance in the post-reforms period: A tale of mixed messages

Ranjan Ray

Department of Economics

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Abstract

This chapter reviews India’s economic performance in the two decades since economic reforms were undertaken in the early 1990s. The report card is mixed with impressive performance on several indicators such as growth rates, size of the economy, poverty reduction, per capita income, and rising affluence of large sections of the population coexisting with dismal performance on health, food security and under nutrition. This chapter contains a comparison of India with China and Vietnam using the recently introduced concept of multidimensional poverty, and shows that India lags behind her Asian neighbours on several welfare
indicators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India
Editors	Sita Venkateswar, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	41-59
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811004544
ISBN (Print)	9789811004537
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0454-4_3
Publication status	Published - 2016

Publication series

Name	Dynamics of Asian Development
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2198-9923
ISSN (Electronic)	2198-9931

Keywords

food security
undernutrition
stunting
wasting
multidimensional depravation

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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India's economic performance in the post-reforms period : A tale of mixed messages. / Ray, Ranjan.

Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India. ed. / Sita Venkateswar; Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. Singapore : Springer, 2016. p. 41-59 (Dynamics of Asian Development).

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