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(Download) EBOOK : Economic Survey 2019-20

(Download) EBOOK : Economic Survey 2019-20

Content :

CHAPTER : 1 Wealth Creation: The Invisible Hand Supported By The Hand Of Trust

  • Importance Of Wealth Creation
  • Wealth Creation Through The Invisible Hand Of Markets
  • The Instruments For Wealth Creation
  • The Breakdown Of Trust In The Early Years Of This Millennium

CHAPTER : 2. Entrepreneurship And Wealth Creation At The Grassroots

  • Entrepreneurship And GDP
  • Determinants Of Entrepreneurial Activity
  • Policy Implications For Fast-Tracking Entrepreneurship And Wealth Creation

CHAPTER : 3. Pro-Business versus Pro-Crony

  • Pro-Business, Creative Destruction And Wealth Creation
  • Pro-Crony And Wealth Destruction
  • Discretionary Allocation Of Natural Resources Vis-À-Vis Allocation Via Auctions
  • Riskless Returns: The Case Of Wilful Default
  • Conclusion

CHAPTER : 4. Undermining Markets: When Government Intervention Hurts More Than It Helps

  • Essential Commodities Act (ECA), 1955
  • Drug Price Controls Under ECA
  • Government Intervention In Grain Markets
  • Debt Waivers
  • Legislative Changes Required To Reduce Government Interventions

CHAPTER : 5. Creating Jobs and Growth by Specializing to Exports in Network Products

  • India’s Export Under-Performance Vis-À-Vis China
  • Reaping Gains From Participation In Global Value Chains
  • Which Industries Should India Specialize In For Job Creation?
  • Pattern Of Entry
  • Potential Gains In Employment And GDP
  • Are Free Trade Agreements Beneficial?
  • Way Forward

CHAPTER : 6. Targeting Ease Of Doing Business In India

  • Introduction
  • Global Comparisons
  • Density Of Legislation And Statutory Compliance Requirements In Manufacturing
  • Starting A Business: Regulatory Hurdles In Opening A Restaurant
  • Construction Permits
  • Achieving Scale Across Business
  • Trading Across Borders
  • Case Studies Of India’s Performance In Logistics In Specific Segments
  • Conclusion

CHAPTER : 7. Golden Jubilee Of Bank Nationalisation: Taking Stock

  • Banking Structure: Nationalization To Today
  • Benefits Of Nationalization
  • Enhancing Efficiency Of PSBs: The Way Forward
  • Conclusion

CHAPTER : 8. Financial Fragility In The NBFC Sector

  • Conceptual Framework Of Rollover Risk
  • Differences Between HFCs And Retail-NBFCs
  • Diagnostic To Assess Financial Fragility
  • Policy Implications

CHAPTER : 9. Privatization And Wealth Creation

  • Impact Of Privatisation: A Firm Level Analysis
  • Way Forward

CHAPTER : 10. Is India’s GDP Growth Rate Overstated? No!

  • Introduction
  • Is GDP Misestimated?
  • A Diagnostic Analysis
  • Conclusion

CHAPTER : 11. Thalinomics: The Economics Of A Plate Of Food In India

  • Introduction
  • Thali Prices
  • Affordability Of Thalis
  • Price Trends Of Thali Components
  • Thali Inflation
  • Variability Of Thali Prices
  • Conclusion

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(Download) EBOOK : Economic Survey 2020-21

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Content :

Chapter-1 Saving Lives and Livelihoods amidst a Once-in-a-Century Crisis

  • COVID-19: Once in A Century ‘Crisis’
  • Research-Driven Policy Response amidst Unprecedented Uncertainty
  • India’s Humane Policy Response: Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain
  • Efficacy of Initial Lockdown in Controlling the Pandemic
  • India: Riding Against the Wave
  • V-Shaped Economic Recovery Due to Timely Stringent Lockdown
  • Far-Sighted Policy Response for Economic Recovery
  • Looking Forward

Chapter-2 Does Growth lead to Debt Sustainability? Yes, But Not Vice- Versa!

  • The (R-G) Differential and Debt Sustainability in India
  • The IRGD and Debt Sustainability for Other Economies
  • In India, Growth Leads to Debt Sustainability, Not Vice-Versa
  • Direction of Causality in Other Economies
  • Crowding Out Due to Public Expenditure?
  • Structure of India’s Debt
  • Scenario Analysis: Is India’s Current Debt Sustainable?
  • Policy Implications

Chapter-3 Does India’s Sovereign Credit Rating Reflect Its Fundamentals? No!

  • The Bias Against Emerging Giants in Sovereign Credit Ratings
  • India’s Sovereign Credit Ratings
  • Does India’s Sovereign Credit Rating Reflect its Fundamentals? No!
  • Have India’s Sovereign Credit Ratings Reflected its Fundamentals in the Past? No!
  • Does India’s Sovereign Credit Rating Reflect its Willingness and Ability to Pay? No!
  • Effect of Sovereign Credit Rating Changes on Select Indicators
  • Macroeconomic Indicators as Determinants of Sovereign Credit Rating Changes
  • Policy Implications

Chapter-4 Inequality and Growth: Conflict or Convergence?

  • Introduction
  • Growth, Inequality, and Socio-Economic Outcomes: India Versus The Advanced Economies
  • Is Perfect Equality Optimal?
  • Inequality or Poverty?
  • Relative Impact of Economic Growth and Inequality on Poverty in India
  • Summary and Conclusions

Chapter-5 Healthcare takes Centre Stage, Finally!

  • Introduction
  • Given significant Market Failures, Healthcare needs careful System Design
  • COVID-19 and India’s Healthcare Policy
  • Indian Healthcare Currently
  • Unregulated Private Enterprise in an Industry marked by High Level of Market Failure
  • Information Asymmetry in India’s Private Insurance Markets
  • Telemedicine
  • Conclusion and Policy Suggestions

Chapter-6 Process Reforms

  • The Problem of Regulatory Effectiveness
  • The Inevitability of Incomplete Regulations
  • The Problem of Regulatory Default
  • Solving for Discretion
  • Direction of Administrative Process Reforms

Chapter-7 Regulatory Forbearance an emergency medicine, not staple diet!

  • Introduction
  • The Original Sin: The Seven-Year Forbearance!
  • Cost of Extended Forbearance Versus Early Resolution of Banking Crises:International Evidence
  • Adverse Impact of Forbearance on Bank Performance and Lending
  • Bank Clean-Up Without Adequate Capitalization
  • Implications for the Current Forbearance Regime

Chapter-8 Innovation: Trending Up but Needs Thrust, Especially from the Private Sector

  • Why Innovation Matters
  • How Does India Perform on Innovation?
  • India’s Innovation Performance vis-à-vis Top Ten Economies
  • Trends in India’s Innovation Performance
  • R&D Expenditure in India
  • India’s Performance on Patents and Trademarks
  • Is Indian Innovation Affected by Access to Finance?
  • Is India Effectively Translating Innovation Inputs into Innovation Outputs?
  • Policy Implications

Chapter-9 JAY Ho: Ayushman Bharat’s Jan Arogya Yojana (JAY) and Health Outcomes

  • Introduction
  • PM-JAY: Status and Progress so far
  • Public Goods, Democracies and Governance
  • PM-JAY and COVID-19
  • PM-JAY and Health Outcomes: Difference-In-Difference Estimates
  • Concluding observations

Chapter-10 The Bare Necessities

  • Introduction
  • Overall BNI
  • Drinking Water Accessibility Index
  • Sanitation Index
  • Housing Index
  • Micro-Environment Index
  • Other Facilities Index
  • Health Outcomes
  • Education Outcomes
  • Conclusion

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