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A detailed analysis of how government in India was financed during the period of direct British rule.
Author : David Sunderland
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843837951
A detailed analysis of how government in India was financed during the period of direct British rule.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic book
ISBN :
Author : James Crabtree
Publisher : Crown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1524760072
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.
Author : Stuart Sweeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 9781848930476
Sitting at the heart of the Raj's project to 'improve' India, the construction of railways began as a 'liberal' experiment in 1853: to promote trade and commerce, to distribute food, and to facilitate the movement of troops. This study focuses in on what was the largest investment project of the British Empire and debunks prevailing ideas.
Author : Bijoyini Mohanty
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788176482240
In the context of Orissa, India; contributed articles.
Author : Arun Banerji
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 1995-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A banker with wide experience in Indian and international finances, Banerji offers an explanation for the hitherto baffling stagnation of the Indian economy at the end of the 19th century when most other economies were catching fire. Colonial government policies concerning government finance; state investment in public works, including railways and irrigation; and the drain of resources out of the country, he says, severely weakened both the economic and social health. Of interest to students of economic history and colonial politics as well as of Indian history. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ram Vinay Prasad Singh
Publisher :
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Panchayat
ISBN : 9788171005000
Author : M. A. Oommen
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 1995
Category : India
ISBN : 9788170225683
Papers presented at a workshop held in New Delhi during Oct. 28- 29, 1994.
Author : Weltbank
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2008
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ISBN :
The Government of India (GOI) is committed to strengthening Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) with a concerted effort to integrate and secure a central role for the village to district-level governments in World Bank-financed operations. The World Bank is actively seeking ways of achieving a greater degree of internal coherence between Bank-financed operations and consistency with the GOI approach to decentralization. With these objectives as backdrop, the report financing of panchayati raj institutions in World Bank-financed operations provides advice to World Bank task teams and clients for designing appropriate fiduciary mechanisms for PRI financing, ones that are consistent with the GOI constitutional framework and comply with World Bank operational policies and procedures. The report uses findings from a mapping exercise of ongoing Bank-financed operations in Panchayati Raj Institutions, analyzing the public financial management and accountability (PFMA) and procurement arrangements to determine what has or has not worked well and whether any can be replicated or mainstreamed. The report also covers the efficiency issues of panchayati raj institutions dealing with multiple financing sources with a resulting heavyload of reporting requirements; the extent to which existing PRI systems are being utilized or could have been utilized, and the views of PRI staff.
Author : Ewout Frankema
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108494269
How colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.