India Policy Forum 2006–07 comprises papers and highlights of the discussions from the third India Policy Forum (IPF) conference, held on July 31–August 1, 2006, in New Delhi. IPF is a joint venture of NCAER and the Brookings Institution that aims to examine India’s reforms and economic transition using policy-relevant empirical research. Dr Pranab Bardhan, Professor, Institute of International Studies, University of California, USA, delivered the third annual IPF lecture on “Governance Matters in Economic Reform.”

2006|7, Volume 3, Papers

• • • Sources of Growth in the Indian Economy
      by Barry Bosworth, Susan M. Collins and Arvind Virmani
      

• • • Trade Liberalization, Labor-Market Institutions, and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Indian States
      by Rana Hasan, Devashish Mitra and Beyza P. Ural
      

• • • Teacher Compensation: Can Decentralization to Local Bodies Take India from the Perfect Storm Through Troubled Waters to Clear Sailing?
      by Lant Pritchett and Rinku Murgai
      

• • • Does Economic Growth Reduce Fertility? Rural India 1971–99
      by Andrew D. Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig
      

• • • • • Managing the Environmental Consequences of Growth: Forest Degradation in the Indian mid-Himalayas
           by Jean – Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar
          

       

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