Why Growth Matters (41 page)

      
foreign/foreign direct (DFI)
8
,
27
,
31
,
143
,
201
,
203
,
204

      
inward direct investments,
88–89

Jandoc, Karl Robert L.,
107
,
119–120

Japan,
135
,
202

Jeffrey, Robin,
76
,
77

Jet Airways,
130

Jews,
77

Jha, Shikha,
171

Jharkhand,
161

Jungalwalla Committee report of 1967,
179

Kalita, Gunajit,
103

Kamble, Milind,
39

Karnataka,
84
,
127
,
137
,
161
,
163

      
medical colleges in,
187

      
Yeshasvini Cooperative Farmers Health Care Scheme
and
Vajpayee Scheme in,
184

Kartar Singh Committee Report on Multipurpose Workers,
17

Kerala,
57
,
64–65
,
68–77

      
Kerala model,
68–77

      
life expectancy and infant mortality in,
71
(figs.),
79
(figs.)

      
literacy rates in,
70
(fig.),
74
,
75
(fig.),
75–77

Kolkata,
50

Kotak, Uday,
54–55

Kremer, Michael,
194

Krishna, Pravin,
47
,
49

Krugman, Paul,
141

Kyung-hae, Lee,
81

Labor

      
allocation of,
150

industrial workers,
53–54
,
101
,
102

      
labor costs,
23
,
24
,
110
,
112
,
116
,
118
,
121
,
163

      
labor demand in China,
207

      
labor-intensive
products/enterprises,
8
,
23
,
24
,
43
,
46
,
98
,
103–107
,
107–108
,
109
,
110
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
121
,
123
,
131
,
196

      
labor laws,
101
,
110
,
111–115
,
116–120
,
121–124

      
labor-market,
44
,
160
,
163

      
Ministry of Labor,
111

      
as mobile,
50
,
164

      
skilled/unskilled labor,
98
,
102
,
103
,
104
,
106
,
109
,
124
,
135
,
157
,
158
,
164

      
unionizing labor,
51
,
52

      
See also
Employment

Lahiri, Amartya,
50

Laissez-faire economics,
52

Lakdawala Committee,
40

Land Acquisition Act (1894),
87
,
125

Land holdings,
8
,
35
,
52
,
69
,
87
,
110
,
125–128
,
145
,
155
,
174

      
nonfarm purposes for farmland,
128

      
social purpose for acquiring,
125

Left, political,
9
,
12
,
22
,
25
,
85
,
89
,
90

Lesotho,
64

“Let Us Stand Economic Theory on Its Head: Joining the GNP Rat Race Won't Wipe Out Poverty” (Haq),
21

Liberalization,
8–9
,
14
,
31
,
39
,
81
,
144
,
203

      
trade liberalization,
42–44
,
49
,
90
,
121
,
143

      
See also
Reforms

Licenses,
29
,
31
,
90
,
109
,
118
,
121

      
license-permit raj,
3
,
39
,
86
,
138
,
188
,
201

Life expectancy,
16
,
58
,
59
(fig.),
60
(table),
60
,
61
,
61
(fig.),
64
,
68
,
70
,
71
(fig. 5.5),
78
,
177

Literacy/illiteracy,
15
,
21
,
68
,
69
,
70
(fig.),
73–74
,
75
(fig.),
75–77
,
78

      
female literacy,
76

      
among potential workers,
116–117

Madhya Pradesh,
38

Maharashtra,
38
,
47
,
69
,
70
,
84
,
133
,
137
,
172

      
life expectancy and infant mortality in,
71
(figs.),
79
(figs.)

      
literacy rates in,
70
(fig.),
74
,
75
(fig.),
78

      
medical colleges in,
187

Malaria,
16
,
58
,
59
(fig.),
60
(table),
178

Malayalam language,
75

Malaysia,
19

Manufacturing,
24
,
98
,
101
,
102
,
112
,
116
,
121
,
144
,
196
,
202

      
growth of,
103

      
labor-capital ratios in,
106–107

      
See also
Industry

Maoist insurgency,
38

Market issues,
4
,
10
,
87
,
138
,
144
,
177
,
182

Market Plus,
91

Maternal mortality.
See under
Women

Maternity Benefit Act (1961),
113

Mathew, George,
69

Matrilineal tradition,
75–76

Media,
40
,
63
,
84
,
89

Medical Council of India,
186
,
187

Medicines,
188

Mehta-Bhatt, Purvi,
83–84

Methodology,
43
,
65
.
See also
Gini coefficient

Mexico,
54
,
149
,
182

Milk,
17
,
172
,
173
,
183

Mineral extraction,
38
,
52
,
87
,
205

Minimum Wages Act (1948),
113

Minorities,
14

Mitra, Amit,
111

Mitra, Devashish,
43
,
44
,
106

Mizoram,
47

Modernization,
102
,
132

Monopolies,
53

Mukim, Megha,
38
,
39
,
44

Multinationals,
8
,
88

Mumbai,
50
,
130
,
133

Muralidharan, Karthik,
194

Murgai, Rinku,
161

Murthy, Narayana,
54–55

Muslims,
38
,
77

Myths,
3
,
205

about development strategy,
9
,
12
,
16

      
about growth and poverty reduction,
10
,
22–25
,
32–36
,
88–89

about health/education,
14–18
,
57–61
,
78

about malnutrition,
62–68

      
about Planning Commission and poverty lines,
40–42

      
about redistribution,
19–22

      
about reforms and Bretton Woods institutions/Washington Consensus,
89–91

      
about reforms and corruption,
85–89

      
about reforms and disadvantaged groups,
36–40

      
about reforms and growth since 1991,
29–32

      
about reforms and inequality,
45–50

      
about suicides of farmers,
81–85

      
about trade openness,
42–44

Nadars,
76

Nagaraj, K.,
82

Nair Service Society,
76

Nakate, Uttam,
119

Nath, Kamal,
131

National Advisory Council,
185

National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights,
36

National Council on Applied Economic Research,
161

National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB),
82

National Democratic Alliance (NDA),
130
,
131

National Family Health Survey,
63
,
66
,
168

National Health Policy,
18

National Highway Authority
and
National Highway Development Program,
130

Nationalization,
7
,
8
,
11

National Movement for Universal (Elementary) Education,
18

National Nutritional Monitoring Bureau (NNMB),
63
,
67
,
168

National Planning Committee,
13
,
15

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme/Act (NREGA),
50
,
96
,
153
,
157–161

      
key achievements of,
159
(table)

      
leakages under,
160–161

      
three phases of implementation,
157

National Rural Health Mission 2005,
18
,
182

National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO),
39
,
43
,
69
,
165
,
167
,
181

Nayars,
76

NCRB.
See
National Crime Records Bureau

NDA.
See
National Democratic Alliance

NDTV website,
41

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
1–2
,
3
,
13
,
15
,
19
,
25
,
201

      
and socialism,
7–8

Nehru, Motilal,
2

New Age Weekly
,
85

New Delhi,
130
,
133
,
161

New Economics,
23

New Industrial Policy (NIP),
7

Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited,
124

NGOs,
4
,
10
,
36
,
63
,
73
,
128
,
175
,
188

NNMB.
See
National Nutritional Monitoring Bureau

Non-Scheduled castes,
44
,
50

Norway,
65

NSSO.
See
National Sample Survey Organization

NTPC company,
127

Nutrition,
15
,
17
,
21
,
57
,
58
,
67–68
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
155
,
165–175

      
and adult weight and height,
168

      
protein/fat intake,
165
,
166
(fig. 15.2),
168

      
See also
Children
:
child nutrition
;
Myths:
about malnutrition

Obesity,
150

Oil,
8
,
51
,
53
,
98
,
104

Orissa,
47
,
49
,
161
,
163

      
Orissa Steel Project,
126

Other Backward Classes/Castes (OBC),
14
,
36
,
37

Outlook
magazine,
66

Panagariya, Arvind,
31
,
38
,
39
,
44
,
49
,
90
,
126
,
203

Pant, Pitambar,
20
,
21

Parliament,
8
,
20
,
36
,
121
,
169
,
204