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Socio economic disparities among social groups in India / Edited by K Ramesh.

By: Ramesh, K.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi : Serials Publications ; 2010Description: viii,140 p. ; HB.ISBN: 9788183873826.Subject(s): Social science EconomicsDDC classification: 307 Summary: India is a large federal nation and it is a fact that there are widespread disparities in the levels of economic and of social development between the different regions. It is well known that interregional economic disparities increase, at least in the initial stages of national economic development. As a result, governments everywhere including India used to initiate deliberate policy measures to reduce these disparities. However, with the re-arrival of the market mechanism in the liberalized economic scenario the world over now, there is a tendency to withdraw such measures under the implicit assumption that the 'invisible hand' will deliver the goods.
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India is a large federal nation and it is a fact that there are widespread disparities in the levels of economic and of social development between the different regions. It is well known that interregional economic disparities increase, at least in the initial stages of national economic development. As a result, governments everywhere including India used to initiate deliberate policy measures to reduce these disparities. However, with the re-arrival of the market mechanism in the liberalized economic scenario the world over now, there is a tendency to withdraw such measures under the implicit assumption that the 'invisible hand' will deliver the goods.

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