Indian Economy: Key Statistics 1997-98

The Indian economy has been passing through a transition on its way to a high growth path. Endemic problems of poverty, population and high prices areoften compounded by the recurence of industrial slowdown, depressed capital market or tardy export growth.

It is difficult to catch the full implications of the changing Indian economy. The book Indian Economy: Key Statistics1997-98 is an attempt in the direction of catching the changing profile of the Indian economy.

The book gives in one place important economic and statistical information to facilitate quick and easy reference. It includes a brief survey of the Indian states to help the reader with an understanding of the federal structure of India.

 

The edition includes the Union Budget 1996-97 and its salient features, credit policy 1996-97, SEBI recommendations on the takeover code intended to keep the readers posted on the latest policy changes in the Indian economy.

The publication has obtained its data from a variety of sources. It list starts with the Economic Survey 1995-96 and the Economic Survey update 1997, Ministry of Finance, Central Statistical Organisation, publications of the Secretariat for Industrial Approvals, Reports on Currency and Finance from the Reserve Bank of India, various issues of the Reserve Bank of India bulletin, economic surveys of the various states and preliminary results of the 1991 census, reports of various ministries for 1995-96, the Union Budget of 1996-97, World Bank report on trends in the developing economies, World Development Report 1996 and Human Development Report 1996, Economic and Political Weekly, the National Council for Applied Economic Research reports, International Monetary Fund publications, newpapers and magazines, Economic and Political Weekly Research Foundation, Government of India Department of Electronics, Gems and Jewellery Promotion Council, Steel Authority of India and Compendium of Textile Statistics from the office of the textile commissioner.

All the statistics are divided into 12 different segments. It starts with national income, agriculture, industry, capital market, money and prices, banking and financial sector, budgetary transactions, infrastructure, social sector, balance of payments, policy and ends with India and the world.The balance of payments topic covers 24 states right from Andhra Pradesh and finally completing with West Bengal..

The Indian Economy: Key Statistics is expected to aid the layman and the specialist alike who look for reliable data on the Indian economy.