(Download) Economic Survey 2017

(Download) Economic Survey 2017

CONTENTS

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Eight Interesting Facts about India

SECTION I: THE PERSPECTIVE

1. Economic Outlook and Policy Challenges

• Introduction
• Global Context
• Review of Developments in 2016-17
• Outlook for 2016-17
• Outlook for 2017-18
• Other Issues

• Redistribution: Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a radical new vision
• Exchange rate policy: Vigilance and new ways of monitoring
• Trade Policy
• Climate Change and India
• Ensuring Women's Privacy
• India's Soon-to-Recede Demographic Dividend

2. The Economic Vision for Precocious, Cleavaged India

• Introduction
• The Road to be Traversed
• Possible Explanations
• Conclusion

SECTION II: THE PROXIMATE

3. Demonetization: To Deify or Demonize?

• Introduction
• Background Facts
• Analytics
• Benefits
• Early Evidence for Potential Long Term Benefits
• Short Term Impact
• Impact on GDP
• Redistribution to the Government
• Markers of Success
• Maximizing Long Term Benefits, Minimizing Short-Term Costs

4. The Festering Twin Balance Sheet Problem

• Introduction
• Is the Strategy Sustainable?
• What Needs to be Done?
• Conclusion

5. Fiscal Framework: The World is Changing, Should India Change Too?

• Introduction
• India and the World: Flows
• India and the World: Stocks
• Conclusion

6. Fiscal Rules: Lessons from the States

• Introduction
• Summary of the Fiscal Responsibility Legislation
• Assessment Methodology
• Impact on Deficits
• Off-Budget Expenditure
• Budget Process
• Assessment
• Lessons for Future Fiscal Rules

7. Clothes and Shoes: Can India Reclaim Low Skill Manufacturing?

• Introduction
• Why Clothes and Shoes?
• Challenges
• Policy Response and Conclusions

8. Review of Economic Developments

• Introduction
• Fiscal Developments
• Prices
• Monetary Management and Financial Intermediation
• India's Merchandise Trade
• Balance of Payments
• External Debt
• Outlook for the Economy for the Year 2017-18
• Agriculture and Food Management
• Industrial, Corporate and Infrastructure Sectors
• Services Sector
• Social Infrastructure, Employment and Human Development
• Climate Change

9. Universal Basic Income: A Conversation With and Within the Mahatma

• Introduction
• The Conceptual/Philosophical Case for UBI
• The Conceptual Case against UBI
• Why Universalize?
• How Can a UBI Overcome These Issues?
• Insurance against Risk and Psychological Benefits
• Improved Financial Inclusion
• Temptation Goods: Would a UBI Promote Vice?
• Moral Hazard: Would a UBI Reduce Labour Supply?
• The Way Forward
• Conclusions

SECTION III: THE PERSISTENT

10. Income, Health and Fertility: Convergence Puzzles

• Introduction
• Finding 1: Income/Consumption Divergence Within India
• Finding 2: Health Convergence within India with Room for Improvement against International Standard
• Finding 3: Fertility: Exceptional Performance
• Conclusions

11. One Economic India: For Goods and in the Eyes of the Constitution

• Introduction
• Section 1: One India: Internal Trade in Goods
• Does India Trade More Than Other Countries?
• Relationship Between Interstate Trade and Manufacturing
• Patterns of Interstate Trade: Arms-length Trade
• Patterns of Interstate Trade: Intrafirm trade
• Is Indian Interstate Trade Unusual? Formal Evidence from a Gravity Model
• Explaining the puzzle: Why Does India Trade so Much?
• Conclusion
• Section 2: One India: Before the Law
• Introduction
• India's Constitutional Provisions and Jurisprudence
• Provisions in Other Countries
• Comparable WTO Law
• Conclusion

12. India on the Move and Churning: New Evidence

• Introduction and Main Findings
• Baseline Census Data: Migration Levels and Growth
• Re-estimating Migration: Two Time Periods, Two Data Sources, Two New Approaches
• Conclusion

13. The 'Other Indias': Two Analytical Narratives (Redistributive and Natural Resources) on States' Development

• Introduction
• Impact of Redistributive Resources
• Redistributive Resource Transfers: Evidence from Indian States
• Impact of Natural Resources
• Natural Resources and Evidence from Indian States
• Conclusion

14. From Competitive Federalism to Competitive Sub-Federalism: Cities as Dynamos

• Introduction
• Background
• Key Challenges
• Lessons from Across India
• Mobilising Resources
• Conclusion

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