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INDIA Policies to Reduce Poverty and Accelerate Sustainable Development through Globalization

INDIA Policies to Reduce Poverty and Accelerate Sustainable Development through Globalization. Steady Progress since Independence. Decline of Poverty since the mid-1970’s 5.8% per year growth trend since 1980 End of the 1980’s development strategy proved unsustainable.

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INDIA Policies to Reduce Poverty and Accelerate Sustainable Development through Globalization

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  1. INDIAPolicies to Reduce Poverty and Accelerate Sustainable Development through Globalization

  2. Steady Progress since Independence • Decline of Poverty since the mid-1970’s • 5.8% per year growth trend since 1980 • End of the 1980’s development strategy proved unsustainable

  3. Quick Recovery from1991 Crisis • Stabilization • Reforms • 3 years of 7.7% per year average growth

  4. Sluggish Poverty Reduction in Recent Years • Poverty reduction fell by 1993-94 • Improvement limited in rural areas • Poor states lag poverty reduction

  5. Despite Achievements, Significant Challenges Ahead • Public spending focused on subsidies • Subsidies crowd-out public investment • State issues with infrastructure, human development and governance

  6. Potential Problems in Accelerating Poverty Reduction, Sustaining Growth

  7. India's Future Growth and Poverty Reduction • Deterioration of infrastructure • Slower pace of reforms and the resulting uncertainty for investors • Lack of agricultural deregulation • Still-low indicators of human development • Governance and institutional issues

  8. Large Deficits, related to Large Explicit and Implicit Subsidies • Large and rising fiscal deficit • Large public sector debt • Tax system • Large civil service

  9. Comfortable BOP but Constraining Domestic Policies • Balance of payments comfortable • Lack of further tariff reform • High infrastructure and transaction costs • Domestic regulations

  10. Financial System:Remains a Concern • Credit availability to private sector

  11. Legal and Environmental Issues • Enforcement of property rights and contracts • “Justice delayed is justice denied” • Environmental and resource degradation

  12. A Second Wave of Reforms to Reduce Poverty Faster

  13. Reforms Cuts in the explicit and implicit subsidies together with privatization in power

  14. Reforms Realignment of Central and State Governments

  15. Reforms More spending on health and education

  16. Reforms Improved Governance

  17. Reforms Completion of the deregulation of goods and factor markets

  18. Reforms Financial System

  19. Reforms Improved infrastructure provision

  20. CONCLUSION

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