Abstract: The challenges ahead for India's planners are manifold ranging from improving the physical infrastructure, increasing investment in the social sectors, liberalising agriculture and deepening financial sector reforms to facilitate the flow of private investments. Non-competitive market structures and inadequate incentives have widened the gap between 'best practice technology' used internationally and that prevalent in India. In a competitive global environment, reform is an ongoing process. The government aims to step up investment in all the sectors, from agriculture to infrastructure. But that will involve reforms in the legal, administrative and regulatory framework relating to existing corporates, labour, tax, land and competition laws. Perhaps the most important challenge is that reforms need to be introduced without destroying the social fabric of the nation or aggravating existing levels of pollution.KeywordsPrivate SectorPrivate InvestmentPower SectorNational HighwaySocial SectorThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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