On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> > Ulhas, could recommend a good book that describes India's distinctive, > > and recently fairly successful, non-export-led development path? > > Michael, I am not sure what period you have in mind. I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. I'm thinking of the mid 1980s to the present. And my question is essentially this. I have read books and articles that critique what has happened in India over the last two decades from the point of view of neo-liberalism, saying that it's terrible that there hasn't been more reform. And I have seen critiques of the same period from critics of neoliberalism saying it's terrible what the neo-liberals have done. And I've seen praises of India from the neo-liberal perspective saying how wonderful has been what the reforms have accomplished. But what I've yet to see is praise of India from a heterodox perspective. Something that acknowledges that India's growth did pass an inflection point circa 1986, and has been quite remarkably high ever since -- that it has been one of the two big (emphasis on big) success stores of development economics. But which also highlights and acounts for the ways in which India's developmental path during that period seems to differ in fundamental ways from the IMF model, the China model, and the Korean/Japanese model. I guess in one sentence what I'm looking for is a book that describes the actually-existing Indian model and compares it to those others. Does such a thing exist? Thanks for your other recommendations. I'm sure they have lots to teach me as well. Michael
