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Authors: Jagdish Bhagwati
Bankruptcy laws,
110
Bhagwati, Jagdish,
49
,
88â89
,
90
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),
14
Bhore Committee report (1946),
179
Bidwai, Praful,
36
Bisoi, Dilip,
127
BJP.
See
Bharatiya Janata Party
Body mass index (BMI),
67â68
,
168
Bofors scandal,
85â86
Borlaug, Dr. Norman,
174
Brain drain,
140
Bretton Woods institutions,
89â91
Breyer, Stephen,
125
Bribes,
86
,
87
,
161
,
187
,
198
.
See also
Corruption
Broadcasting,
203
Browne (Lord),
139
BT seeds.
See
Bacillus thuringiensis
seeds
Cain, Jewel,
44
Cairncross, Frances,
140
Calorie consumption,
67
,
165â169
,
166
(fig. 15.1),
167â168
,
168â169
,
170
,
171
,
172
Capital-intensive
     Â
products/enterprises.
See under
Industry
Capitalism,
54
Capital markets,
109
Cash transfers.
See under
Redistribution
Central African Republic,
64
Chad,
64
Chari, Anusha,
54
Chasin, Barbara,
68â69
     Â
childbirth,
183
child nutrition,
62â67
,
68
,
177
     Â
elite children,
66
     Â
stunted/overweight children,
60
(table),
64
(fig.),
64
,
65â66
     Â
See also
Education:
primary/secondary
;
Infant/child mortality
China,
19
,
28
,
55
,
57
,
58
,
60
(table),
60â61
,
61
(fig.),
91
,
97
,
103
,
111
,
121
,
128
,
132
,
202
     Â
capital stock per worker in,
107
     Â
Cultural Revolution in,
136
     Â
defense spending of,
206â207
     Â
demand for labor in,
207
     Â
exports of,
106
     Â
firm size in,
108
(fig.),
108
,
117
     Â
Guangdong province,
207
     Â
and hybrid rice varieties,
174
     Â
higher education in,
135
,
136
     Â
IndiaâChina growth comparisons,
61
,
206â208
     Â
Pearl River Delta in,
101â102
Clothing,
15
,
16
,
40
,
104
,
106
(table),
106
,
149
,
153
.
See also
Apparel
Collective action problem,
178
Collector of Malabar,
77
Communist Parties of India
and
China,
85
,
207
Comparative advantage,
121
Computers,
207
     Â
Congress Forum for Socialist Action,
11
     Â
Syndicate in,
11
     Â
86th Constitution (86th Amendment) Act of 2002,
189â190
Consumption,
8
,
15
,
22
(fig.),
40
,
48
,
155
     Â
conspicuous consumption,
46
,
51
     Â
consumption patterns,
150â152
     Â
of electricity,
132
(fig.),
132
     Â
of fast food,
149
Contract Labor (Regulation and Abolition) Act (1970),
115
,
121
Corruption,
10
,
50
,
51
,
52
,
54
,
85â89
,
113
,
149
,
152
,
154
,
162
,
182
,
203
     Â
anticorruption mass movements,
205
     Â
See also
Bribes
Das, Deb Kusum,
103
Das, Jishnu,
181
DasGupta, Monica,
178â179
Debroy, Bibek,
122
Debt,
9
,
19
,
84
.
See also
Borrowing
Dehejia, Rageev,
39
DeLong, Bradford,
29â30
Deshpande, R. S.,
84
Development issues,
4
,
9
,
27
,
35
,
68
,
69
,
111
.
See also
Economic growth
; Myths:
about development strategy
Discovery of India, The
(Nehru),
13
Disease,
2
,
17
,
177
,
178
.
See also
Malaria
Dixon, Pauline,
194â195
Drèze, Jean,
48
,
66â67
,
88
,
89
,
168
Dutta, Puja,
161
Economic and Political Weekly
,
66
Economic growth,
9
,
67
,
70
,
87
,
118
,
129
,
137
     Â
and crisis of 2008,
203
     Â
and diffusion effect,
49
     Â
and elementary education,
193
     Â
as end in itself,
12
,
14
     Â
future prospects concerning,
205â208
     Â
and government controls,
8
     Â
IndiaâChina growth comparisons,
61
,
206â208
     Â
potential for,
97
     Â
and poverty reduction,
2â3
,
4
,
9
,
10
,
12â13
,
14
,
16
,
19â20
,
21
,
22â25
,
32
,
33
,
54
,
95â96
,
98
,
202
,
204
,
206
     Â
and reforms,
10
,
28
,
29â32
,
39
,
145
     Â
in South Korea,
98
     Â
surge in rates beginning 2003â2004,
45
,
82
Education,
3
,
14
,
16
,
21
,
23
,
50
,
67
,
76â77
,
78
,
88
,
117
,
151
,
152
,
153
,
160
     Â
and caste-and religion-based groups,
76
     Â
enrollment ratios,
190â192
(figs.)
     Â
higher education,
135â141
     Â
medical education,
137
,
186â187
     Â
norms and standards for all schools,
197â198
primary/secondary,
17
,
18
,
75
,
149
,
153
,
154
,
189â199
     Â
private schools,
73
,
193â195
     Â
public vs. private schools,
193â195
     Â
tuition fees,
138
,
141
,
193
,
198
     Â
universal elementary education,
189
,
191
,
193
     Â
unrecognized schools,
193â195
,
198
     Â
See also
Literacy/illiteracy
;
Teachers
;
Vouchers
“Economic Reforms: Fountain Head of Corruption” (Yadav)
85â86
Electricity,
14
,
53
,
89
,
104
,
133
,
160
,
174
     Â
Electricity Act (2003),
131
Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act (1952),
113
Employees' State Insurance Act (1948),
112
Employment,
23
,
25
,
27
,
39
,
42
,
46â47
,
77
,
95
,
97
,
98
,
101
     Â
in agriculture,
83
,
98
,
99
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
144
     Â
capital stock per worker,
107
     Â
contract workers,
115
     Â
employment share by firm size,
108
(fig.)
lay-offs/retrenchments,
8
,
24
,
114
,
118
,
122
,
123
,
194
(
see also
Unemployment
)
     Â
in public works programs,
154
     Â
reassignment of workers,
122
     Â
worker safety,
112
     Â
See also
Labor
;
National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme/Act; Poverty: and providing employment
Employment-Unemployment Survey,
50
Engineering goods,
24
,
53
,
54
,
98
,
104
Entrepreneurs,
39
,
40
,
46
,
53
,
54
,
86
,
102
,
111
,
116
,
131
,
149
,
187
,
206
Essential Commodities Act of 1955,
144
European Union,
202