India's Reforms

D.D. Miller, CHOICE a major empirical contribution.

<br>Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, is a prominent economist. He has made pioneering contributions to the study of development, globalization, international trade, foreign aid, and immigration. He also writes frequently for leading media worldwide. He has served in many advisory roles, including at the GATT as Economic Policy Adviser to Director General Arthur Dunkel and at the UN to Secretary General Kofi Annan on Globalization and on NEPAD Process in Africa. He works with many NGOs, including Human Rights Watch. <br>Arvind Panagariya is Professor of Economics & Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has written and edited ten books. His last book, India: The Emerging Giant (OUP, 2008) has been described as the 'definitive book on the Indian economy'. Panagariya writes a monthly column in The Economic Times, India's top financial daily.<br>

1. Introduction Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya Part I: Reforms and Democracy 2. Views from the Indian Electorate: Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions with Democracy, Politics and the Economy Alfred Stepan 3. Economic Reforms and Electoral Outcomes Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagariya Part II: Trade, Poverty and Inequality 4. Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction: New Evidence from Indian States J. Cain, Rana Hasan and Devashish Mitra 5. Growth, Openness and the Socially Disadvantaged Megha Mukim and Arvind Panagariya 6. Trade and Inequality in India Pravin Krishna, Guru Sethupathy