Product Description: The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics addresses the recent economic transformation in South Asia. Leading experts in the field look at the major economic achievements and challenges for the region and examine why economic development across the South Asia region has diverged so significantly since the early 1990s...read more

Product Description: Provides a detailed analysis of the achievements and disappointments of the modern Indian economy, and an exploration of the issues which are shaping India's economic future.

Product Description: With globalization fast becoming an irreversible process, it is necessary to pay increased attention to the implications for environmental sustainability. However, the so-called environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) argument implies that rapid economic growth in many developing countries should be environmentally unsustainable...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together frontline research on the prospects for rapid economic development in South Asia by leading academics and public policy experts. It reviews recent macroeconomic performance in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

This wide-ranging, up-to-date and detailed account of all aspects of public economics covers topics as varied as: * classical theorems of welfare economics* the theory of public expenditure* the effects of taxation on savings, labour supply investment and risk-taking* commodity, income and expenditure taxation* public sector and cost-benefit analysis* fiscal federalism. Written by Raghbendra Jha, an author with an established reputation, this book fills the gap in literature on this topic and will be a valuable reference for undergraduates in the fields of economics and public finance.

Product Description: This edited collection examines the impact of the reforms on the Indian economy in a structured, analytical manner. The contributors look at the impact of the reforms on various sectors as well as the macro economy. Topics covered in the volume include the behavior of money multipliers; exchange rate policy; corporate governance; agricultural price policy; constraints on rapid economic growth; and the inadequate progress in poverty alleviation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This comprehensively revised and updated edition develops the themes presented in the first edition. Students and teachers who are familiar with the book will notice entirely new chapters as well as significant revision and uptating of existing chapters to take into account global economic changes since the turn of the millennium...read more