includes index and biblioraphy

This book of collected articles provides an in-de[th treatment of growth and employment issues in India. It reviews India`s long-term growth experience, the emerging constraints and challenges, and the way forward for sustaining rapid growth along with more and better employment. Specifically, the book identifies wasys in which the investment climate can be further improved to raise productivity and reduce the cost of doing business, thereby promoting domestic and foreign private investment. It looks at the growth and productivity and incomes. Higher farm productivity and incomes along with more and better no-farm jobs will reduce poverty at a faster pace than in the recent past. It explains the reason for the low overall employment elasticity of past growth and why there has been limited expansion of good jobs, and concludes by suggesting reform options for increasing employment.