Ebook: Public finance : policy issues for India

This book focuses on issues of significant analytical or policy interest in Indian public finance. A major component of the ongoing reforms programme in India is comprehensive fiscal reform, from reduction in fiscal deficit, and expenditure control, to tax reforms. The contributors to this volume, all leading experts in their respective fields, take as their point of departure one or another aspect of the fiscal reform process. The organizing theme that binds these contributions together is the crisis of the tax state, and the attempts to resolve this fiscal crisis. Together, the contributors provide a comprehensive review of the fiscal reform process as a whole, while maintaining a practical and operational orientation. At the same time, the plurality of views and theoretical approaches presented here gives the student of Indian public finance a feel of the actual terms of discourse on fiscal policy. This book is essential reading not only for students, researchers and teachers, but also journalists and policy-makers.