MAINSTREAMING THE MARGINALISED : REFLECTIONS ON POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL INDIA BY VS VYAS (HARDCOVER)

Why did India’s stellar economic growth at 8 percent plus in the eight years, 2003-2011, collapse to 5 per cent or less by 2012-13? What were the key policy failures, of commission and omission,that brought about this sharp slowdown? Now, in 2015, with a new government with Some of the questions asked in the context of contemporary economic development in India are: Why despite high rate of growth for nearly a decade there has not been any major reduction in the number of the poor households? Why despite high growth, dependence on the agriculture has not declined in any measurable way? Why with all the relevant institutions in place the delivery systems are not able to reach the ‘last man’? In various essays collected in this book, attempt is made to answer some of these questions. seemingly strong political mandate, why is it proving so difficult to revive the earlier strong momentum of economic development? How should the new government tackle the deep legacy problems of the past? In the new global context, is slower economic growth inevitable?