Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Development and public finance : essays in honour of Raja J. Chelliah / edited by D.K. Srivastava, U. Sankar
Published New Delhi : SAGE India, 2012

Copies

Description 1 online resource (360 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction and Overview; PART I: Perspectives on Public Finance; 1 -- On Strategies for Disinvestment and Privatization; 2 -- Financial Transactions Taxes; 3 -- Issues in Design and Implementation of a Carbon Tax System in India; 4 -- Economic Analysis of India's Double Tax Avoidance Agreements; 5 -- A Political Cost Model of Fiscal Federalism: Some Empirical Results from Indian Federation; 6 -- Tax Effort of Indian States, 2002-07; 7 -- On the Political Economy of Fiscal Imbalances in India
8 -- When Should Budget Deficit Be a Serious Concern?9 -- Revenue Estimation for Goods and Services Tax; PART II: Perspectives on Development; 10 -- Contours of Central Banking: Have They Changed?; 11 -- Decentralization and Economic Development: Issues in Policy and Institutional Reform; 12 -- Modelling Social Policy; 13 -- Decentralization in India: Outcomes and Opportunities; 14 -- Globalization of Knowledge Development; 15 -- Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation Policies in India; 16 -- Regional Growth Convergence in Indian States: A Panel Data Approach
17 -- Investment and Subsidies in Indian Agriculture: One Variation on a Theme by Dr Raja J Chelliah18 -- Credit, Branch Banking and Output: Evidence from Indian States; PART III: Dr Raja J Chelliah: In Memoriam; A Biographical Sketch; Raja Chelliah: Economist without an Honorific 'Indian'; Dr Chelliah: Great Crusader for Fiscal Reforms; Raja Chelliah: An Indomitable Crusader; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
Summary Development and Public Finance is a commemorative volume on late Dr Raja J. Chelliah, one of the foremost Public Finance experts of India. It is designed as a compendium of essays on contemporary issues of Public Finance and Development, focusing on the rapidly globalizing Indian economy. Well-known scholars and experts have contributed insightful articles to this collection. All contributions have been exclusively invited for this publication. They represent a weaving of interdependent themes of Development and Public Finance and are sequentially arranged to reflect their interrelationships
Notes Print version record
Subject Economic development.
Finance, Public.
economic development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Economic development
Finance, Public
Form Electronic book
Author Srivastava, D. K., 1948-
Sankar, U.
ISBN 9788132109860
8132109864