Progressive fiscal policy in India/
Praveen K. Jha
- SAGE, 2011.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I -- Overall Macroeconomic Policy Regimeand Its Linkages with Fiscal Policy; 1 -- Finance Capital, Fiscal Deficits and the Current Global Crisis; 2 -- Liberalization as a Constraint on Fiscal Policy; 3 -- Inclusive Growth in Neoliberal India; 4 -- Growing Inequality; 5 -- Assessing Tax Policy and Tax Compliance in the Reform Era; Section II -- Pressing Concerns Relating to Fiscal Federalism in India; 6 -- Challenges to Fiscal Policy in Indiain the Era of Reforms. 7 -- Fiscal Devolution in the Era of Liberalization8 -- Thirteenth Finance Commission; 9 -- Horizontal Imbalances in Indian Federalism; 10 -- Regaining the Constitutional Identity of the Finance Commission; 11 -- Towards a Rational and Progressive Fiscal Policy; Section III -- Public Policies and Institutions towards Addressing the Development Deficits; 12 -- Unbalanced Growth, Tertiarization of the Indian Economy and Implications for Mass Living Standards; 13 -- From Outlays to Outcomes; 14 -- Social Sector Expenditures; 15 -- Centrally Sponsored Schemes; 16 -- Improving India's Health. 17 -- Financing the Right to EducationAbout the Editor and Contributors; Index.