India in Transition

`With his accustomed brilliance, wit, and wisdom, Jagdish Bhagwati describes India's urgent tasks of economic reform. We could not have a better guide: Bhagwati has been a persistent and eloquent advocate of market reforms in India for the past three decades. In his Radhakrishnan Lectures, we are reminded again that Bhagwati is one of the world's outstanding leaders on problems of economic development and international trade.' Jeffrey D. Sachs, Harvard University

`Jagdish Bhagwati is a leading economist of the day, and has worked as a policymaker in the heydays of planning, is a major scholar of the Indian economy, and has written extensively and persuasively on the advantages of freer trade and microeconomic policies ... The book is succinct and impressive. It is essential reading not only for those interested in India but also for development economists in general and anyone trying to understand what will be one of the most important experiments in the world over the next decade.' Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics

`The spectacular haemorrhage, otherwise known as India's economic performance, is chronicled with customary brilliance by Jagdish Bhagwati in one of the most eagerly awaited books of the year ... India in Transition will remain an enduring part of economics literature for its incisive and witty account of India's economic performance and for one of the most comprehensive and powerful treatments of poverty ever seen in recent years.'
Economic Times

`Professor Bhagwati writes lucidly and, rare for an academic economist, he is able to make his ideas accessible to a larger audience as he does in this slim book.'
NBThe Hindu

'The main value of the book lies, not so much in its topicality, but in the clear articulation of the rationale for reforms. This book steers firmly away from technical rigour and economic jargon and should help Professor Bhagwati find the wider audience his ideas deserve.'
Economic Times

'Bhagwati's prescriptions are of more than academic interest ... Bhagwati claims convincingly that what distinguishes today's effort is both style and substance.'
William McGurn, Far Eastern Economic Review

`Jagdish Bhagwati ... is undoubtedly amongst the best-known Indian economists internationally.'
Financial Express, India

`Bhagwati has written an optimistic, prescriptive book, focusing more on what is to be done than on whether politically it will be done. But for anyone concerned with why India's economic development strategy failed and why the new liberalization strategy makes sense, this short, non-technical analysis is the book to read.'
Foreign Affairs Journal

'This splendid volume is an elegant blend of unsparing, rigorous, and judicious reasoning, duly garnished with the author's characteristic puckish wit ... it ranks in the now-vanished grand tradition of classical political economy.'
Anand Chandavarkar, Finance & Development

'India's economic perform...