India Policy Forum
The India Policy Forum (IPF) is an annual publication dedicated to analyzing contemporary trends in the Indian economy. Papers are selected by the IPF editors and are presented each year at a conference in New Delhi. The objective of the publication is to address issues related to the scope, speed and desirability of economic reforms within India and their fundamental impact on the country's social and economic welfare. The need for such real-time quantitiative analysis is particularly pressing for an economy like India's, which is in the process of rapid growth, structural change and increased involvement in the global economy.
The IPF is joint publication of the Brookings Institution and the National Council of Applied Economic Research in India, and serves as a forum for a global network of scholars interested in India's economic transformation.
In this Series
2009
July 2009
The sixth issue of the India Policy Forum, edited by Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagariya, covers the global financial crisis and the implications for India.
2008
July 2008
The fifth issue of the India Policy Forum, edited by Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagariya, includes papers on India’s financial sector, including capital account liberalization, currency appreciation and capital reserves, as well as growth and employment in Indian manufacturing and the impact of private education.
2007
July 2007
The fourth volume of the India Policy Forum, edited by Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagariya, features papers on schooling inequality, the duration of microfinance groups, sub-national fiscal flows, and reform of the power sector, land policies, and higher education.
2006
July 2006
This third issue of the India Policy Forum covers India’s economic growth performance over the past quarter century and the impact of trade liberalization on the distribution of income and poverty; the distressingly poor performance of India’s elementary schools; the role of economic factors on the decline of the Indian birth rate; and the link between economic growth and environmental change by assessing the interaction between local living standards and forest degradation in the Indian mid-Himalayas.
2005
July 2005
The second volume of the India Policy Forum addresses issues of government fiscal and monetary policy; a detailed review of developments
in labor markets and the distribution of income since the initiation of
large-scale economic reforms in 1991; and a critical assessment of policies aimed at promoting universal access to telecommunications services.
2004
March 2004
This inaugural issue of the India Policy Forum includes papers on the trade policies that would do the most to enhance India’s future growth prospects, analyses of recent developments in India’s balance of payments and an examination of the performance of the Indian banking system.