This book proposes to look backward, examining the history of the idea of planning and the history and experience of planning in India. This book addresses three leading questions: why plan economic development? How to plan? And what exactly can/should be planned?
The Planning Commission played a crucial role in the type of development that India followed after independence. However, even though most economic analyses of India mention the five-year plans, the Planning Commission as an institution remains little studied. This is why this book proposes to look backward, examining the history of the idea of planning and the history and experience of planning in India. It also looks forward, trying to evaluate, beyond ideologies, which role the practice of planning has and should have in contemporary India. It then proposes that the NITI Aayog, the think tank founded on 1st January 2015 after the demise of the Planning Commission, could learn from this experience. This book addresses three leading questions: why plan economic development? How to plan? And what exactly can/should be planned? These questions are interrelated and the contributors of this volume, each with their own focus, propose elements of replies.
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Examines the history of the idea of planning and the history and experience of planning in India.
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1 Planning for a 21st Century India |
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PART I Origins: Ideas and Ideology |
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2 From Economists to Historians: Studying the Planning Commission, 1950--2014 |
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3 The Long Road to Indian Economic Planning (until 1950) |
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4 Ideas and Origins of the Planning Commission in India |
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PART II Changes and Continuity: Development and Adaptation of Planning and the Planning Commission |
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5 The Planning Commission and Education |
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6 Addressing Agrarian Distress: Sops versus Development |
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7 Economic Planning after Economic Liberalization: Between Planning Commission and Think Tank NITI, 1991--2015 |
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8 Planning Commission: Obiter Dictum |
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9 On a Revived Planning Commission |
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PART III Planning Beyond the Planning Commission |
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11 Manufacturing: The Cornerstone of a Planning Strategy for the 21st Century |
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12 Fiscal Planning to Sustain Growth and Poverty Reduction |
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13 Plan, but Do Not Over-plan: Lessons for NITI Aayog |
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14 Why Does India Need a Central Planning Institution in the 21st Century? |
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Santosh Mehrotra is a human development economist whose research and writings have had most influence in the areas of labour, employment, skill development, child poverty, and the economics of education. He was an economic adviser in the United Nations system in New York City, Italy, and Thailand (19912006), and technocrat in the government of India (20062014), apart from making contributions to academic research since the mid-1980s. He has also in recent years established a reputation as an institution-builder in the field of research in India. He brings a combination of professional experience: with the Indian government as a policy maker and adviser, and with international organisations as a technical expert. Sylvie Guichard is lecturer at the Department of History and Political Thought at Université de Genčve. Her research interests are religion, law and politics, and Indian political thought.
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