Jumpstarting South Asia

Revisiting Economic Reforms and Look East Policies

Pradumna B. Rana, Wai-Mun Chia (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

251 Seiten

2017
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-947928-3 (ISBN)

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Economic reforms implemented by the South Asian countries in the 1980s and 1990s had positive impacts on growth, and the region's share of world GDP had started to increase. But, more recently, economic growth in South Asia has softened somewhat due to a number of reasons. This book focuses on the slowing pace of economic reforms and makes the case for a two-pronged strategy to jumpstart South Asian economies. First, South Asian countries should complete the economic reform process that they had begun and implement the more microeconomic reforms, namely, the sectoral, and governance and institutional reforms to enhance competition and improve the operation of markets. Second, they should implement the second round of 'Look East' policies or LEP2 to (i) link themselves to production networks in East Asia, their fastest growing markets, and (ii) develop production networks in manufacturing and services within their region. The book argues that the proposed strategy will lead to a win-win situation for all countries in South Asia and East Asia, and reinvigorate economic integration within South Asia, one of the least integrated regions of the world. The book also identifies the unfinished policy reform agenda for each South Asian country and the components of the LEP2 that they should implement.

Pradumna B. Rana is associate professor and the coordinator of International Political Economy Programme at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Chia Wai-Mun is associate professor of Economics at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Foreword by Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

1. The Policymaking Process: Overview and Theoretical Frameworks
2. Activism and Law Making: Extant Theories, Their Applicability, and New Findings
3. The Road to the Competition Act, 2001
4. Leveraging Grass-roots Activism: The Right to Information Act, 2005
5. The Journey to the Right to Education Act, 2009
6. The Struggle against Child Labour
7. Unfulfilled Promises: The Microfinance Bill, 2012 169
8. Accelerated Change: The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013
9. Ensuring Food Security
10. The Tactics of Protest: Getting to the Lokpal Act
11. The Evolving Story of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013
12. In Search of a New Theory

Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2018
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 224 mm
Gewicht	434 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-947928-3 / 0199479283
ISBN-13	978-0-19-947928-3 / 9780199479283
Zustand	Neuware