The Fifth India Policy Forum (IPF) conference was held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi over July 15–16, 2008. Prof. W. Max Corden, University of Melbourne, Australia delivered the fifth annual IPF lecture on “India and the World Economy: From Friend to Foe? India, the World Economy and the Current Oil Shock”.

2008|9, Volume 5, Papers

• Private Schooling in India: A New Educational Landscape
  by Sonalde Desai, Amaresh Dubey, Reeve Vanneman and Rukmini Banerji
  

• Big Reforms but Small Payoffs: Explaining the Weak Record of Growth in Indian Manufacturing
  by Poonam Gupta, Rana Hasan and Utsav Kumar

• Some New Perspectives on India’s Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
  by Eswar S. Prasad

• What Explains India’s Real Appreciation?
  by Renu Kholi and Sudip Mohapatra

• The Cost of Holding Excess Reserves: Evidence from India
   by Abhijit Sen Gupta
  

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