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Explore various texts in our public repository like the 1991 Reforms Documents, Expert Committee Reports, and Ideas and Influence.

1991 Reforms Documents

July 24, 1991 | Statement on Industrial Policy | Government of India, Ministry of Industry

August 13, 1991 | Statement by Minster on Trade Policy | Shri P. Chidambaram Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Commerce

July 9, 1991 | Prime Minister Rao's July 9 Speech transcript | P. V. Narasimha Rao Former Prime Minister of India

Expert Committee Reports

India's Proposed Digital Competition Framework: The License Raj by Another Name

Shruti Rajagopalan and Shreyas Narla

Report of the Committee on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility (2006), chaired by S. S. Tarapore

Report of the Ad-Hoc Group of Experts on Empowerment of Central Public Sector Enterprises (2005), chaired by Arjun Sengupta

Ideas and Influences

Raul Prebisch ; Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raul_Prebisch_(1954).tif

In 1964, Raúl Prebisch becomes secretary-general of UNCTAD and promotes import substitution as a growth strategy.

Walt Whitman Rostow formulates his stages-of-growth theory, which will influence the field of development economics.

Hollis Chenery ; Source: History of Economic Thought

In 1975, Hollis Chenery develops the patterns-of-development approach, which identifies common patterns and structural changes in developing economies as they grow.