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Between 1984 and 1991 India was experiencing the most serious economic transformation process since its independence. Liberalization, export orientation and globalization are the buzzwords that the country's economic elite has adopted. Foreign companies saw the then 300 million-strong middle class as a market of the future. The book looks at India Today, six years after the start of structural adjustment policies supported by the IMF and World Bank. The country's economic, political and social problems have not diminished. Between 1990 and 1992 alone, the percentage of Indians living below the poverty line increased from 35.5 to 40.7 percent, according to the state statistics agency. These five percentage points still conceal 57 million people. The Congress Party, which began liberalizing the economy after its election victory in June 1991, finds itself increasingly on the defensive politically because the economic and social recovery process it promised has so far failed to materialize. In several elections to state parliaments, parties have now been able to assert themselves that successfully addressed the deficiencies in politics felt by many voters with populist measures, such

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Author

Eberhard Weber

Publisher

GRIN Verlag. ein Imprint von GRIN Publishing GmbH

Published

1995

Language

DE

ISBN

9783346025623

Category

nonfiction