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.

India Policy Forum 2008

The fifth annual India Policy Forum conference convenes in New Delhi from July 14-16 this year. Topics for discussion include 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. Papers from the forum will be published jointly next year by Brookings and the National Council of Applied Economic Research in India.

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India Policy Forum 2007

The 2007 volume of the India Policy Forum 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.

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FORTHCOMING PAPERS:

• "Indian Higher Education Reform: From Half-Baked Socialism to Half-Baked Capitalism"
  Authors: Devesh Kapur (University of Pennsylvania) & Pratap Mehta (Centre for Policy Research)
  
• "The Political Economy of the Indian Fiscal Federation"
  Author: Indira Rajaraman (NIPFP)
  
• "The Power Sector in India: An Inquiry into the Efficacy of the Reform Process"
  Authors: Urjit Patel (The Brookings Institution) & Saugata Bhattacharya (UTI Bank)
  
• "Can Schooling Policies Affect Schooling Inequality? An Empirical Evaluation of School Location Policies in India"
  Author: Anjini Kochar (Stanford University)
  
• "Land Policies and Land Reforms in India: Progress and Implication for the Future"
  Authors: Klaus Deininger (The World Bank) & Hari Nagarajan (NCAER)
  
• "Micro-finance Lifespans: A Study of Attrition and Exclusion in Self-Help Groups in India"
  Authors: Jean-Marie Baland (University of Namur), Rohini Somanathan, (Delhi School of Economics) & Lore Vandewalle (University of Namur)

India Policy Forum 2006

In 2006, the India Policy Forum focused on sources of growth in the Indian economy, trade liberalization, labor-market institutions and poverty reduction, and teacher compensation issues.

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India Policy Forum 2005

The second volume of the India Policy Forum features papers presented during the annual conference in Delhi on July 25-26, 2005. The papers focus on several issues of great relevance to India's current economic situation. Topics include:

• "Excessive Budget Deficits, a Government-Abused Financial System, and Fiscal Rules," by Willem H. Buiter and Urjit R. Patel
• "Trends and Issues in Tax Policy and Reform in India," by M. Govinda Rao and R. Kavita Rao
• "How Applicable Is the Inflation-Targeting Framework for India?" by Sheetal K. Chand and Kanhaiya Singh
• "Pre- and Postreform India: A Revised Look at Employment, Wages, and Inequality," by Surjit S. Bhalla and Tirthatanmoy Das
• "Universal Telecommunications Service in India," by Roger G. Noll and Scott J. Wallsten
  
  Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth, and Arvind Panagariya edited the volume.

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India Policy Forum 2004

2004 was the inaugural year for the India Policy Forum. Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagariya edited the first volume, which include the following topics:

• "India's Trade Reform," by Arvind Panagariya
• "Should a U.S.-India Free Trade Agreement Be Part of India's Trade Strategy?" by Robert Z. Lawrence and Rajesh Chadha
• "Foreign Inflows and Macroeconomic Policy in India," by Vijay Joshi and Sanjeev Sanyal
• "India's Experience with a Pegged Exchange Rate," by Ila Patnaik
• "Liberalizing Capital Flows in India: Financial Repression, Macroeconomic Policy, and Gradual Reforms," by Kenneth M. Kletzer
• "Banking Reform in India," by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Shawn Cole, and Esther Duflo

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