Why Growth Matters (43 page)

Telephones,
86
,
87
,
95
.
See also
Cell phones

Tendulkar, Suresh,
40

Ten Point Program,
11

Tesco,
180

Textiles,
103

Thailand,
19

Times of India
,
7

Tobacco,
155

Tooley, James,
194–195

Topalova, Petia,
42–43
,
48

Towle, Meg,
62
,
63

Trade,
8
,
11
,
23
,
77
,
110
,
118

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

      
trade to GDP ratio,
31

Trade Unions Act (1926),
111
,
123–124

Travancore,
74
,
75
,
76

Tripura,
163

Twain, Mark,
51

2G-spectrum scam,
87

Unemployment,
15
.
See also
Employment
:
lay-offs/retrenchments

Unions,
51
,
111
,
123

United Kingdom.
See
Great Britain

United Nations,
60

      
Development Program (UNDP),
12
,
68

      
Population Division,
137–138

United Progressive Alliance (UPA),
97
,
130
,
132
,
143
,
203

United States,
65
,
85
,
90
,
103
,
104
,
117
,
202

      
anti-trust legislation in,
52–53

      
Gilded Age in,
50–55

      
Homestead Strike of 1892,
52

      
illegal immigrants in,
149–150

      
Indian graduate students in,
140

      
Indo–US nuclear cooperation deal,
206

      
infrastructure in,
129

      
Supreme Court,
125

      
Works Projects Administration (WPA) in,
158

Universities,
135–139

      
foreign universities,
139–141

University Grants Commission (UGC),
136–137

UPA.
See
United Progressive Alliance

Ural, Beyza P.,
43
,
44

Urbanization,
101
,
102
,
132–133

Urban Land Ceilings Act of 1976,
133

Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing,
106
,
110

Uttarakhand,
126

Uttar Pradesh,
144
,
161
,
174

Vaccinations,
178
,
179

Vajpayee, Atal Bihari,
14
,
95
,
101
,
204

Varshney, Ashutosh,
50

Vietnam,
121
,
132

Violence,
51
,
126

Voting rights,
53

Vouchers,
151
,
153
,
154
,
155
,
197

Wadhwa, Deepika,
103

Wages/salaries,
23
,
46–47
,
50
,
51
,
97
,
99
,
112
,
113
,
121
,
138
,
149–150
,
154
,
157–158
,
159
(table),
161
,
162
,
163
,
164
,
181
,
194
,
207

Walmart,
117
,
143
,
180

Warner, Charles Dudley,
51

Washington Consensus,
89
,
90
,
91

Water,
16
,
67
,
112
,
133
,
149
,
158
,
160
,
163
,
168
,
174
,
178

Wealth,
46
,
51
,
76
,
89

Weddings,
55

Weisskopf, Thomas E.,
47
,
48

Welfare state,
182

West Bengal,
60
,
126
,
144
,
163

Wheat,
170
,
172

WHO.
See
World Health Organization

Women,
75

      
body mass index of,
67
,
168

      
female literacy,
76

      
maternal mortality,
16
,
58
,
59
(fig.),
60
(table),
60
,
64–65
,
68
,
177

      
maternity care,
183

      
widows,
161

      
in workforce,
112
,
117
,
158
,
159
(table)

Workmen's Compensation Act (1923),
113

World Bank,
34–35
,
36–37
,
89
,
90–91
,
169

World Health Organization (WHO),
58
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
169

World Trade Organization,
81

Wright, Stephen,
31

Yadav, R. S.,
85–86

Young people,
204
,
207

Young Turks,
11

Jagdish Bhagwati
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Arvind Panagariya
is professor of economics and Indian political economy at Columbia University, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a past chief economist of the Asian Development Bank. A leading trade theorist of his generation, Panagariya has written prolifically on global trade policy issues and economic reforms in India. Author of a dozen books, his technical papers have been published in the leading journals, including the
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, and
Review of Economic Studies
while his policy papers have appeared in
Foreign Affairs
and
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. Panagariya writes an influential monthly column in the
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