The India Public Finance and Policy Report 2016, a flagship endeavour of the Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy (CTRPFP), debates contemporaneous issues in
public finance and public policy from a national and a global perspective. This inaugural volume on ＂Fiscal Issues and Macro Economy＂ presents a comprehensive survey of India’s fiscal policy,
offering new insights on the state of public finance in the country from a contemporary, historical, and futuristic perspective.
Among other areas, the report addresses the
· Dynamic interlinkages between different macroeconomic variables
· Importance of intergovernmental transfers in states’ fiscal performance
· Effect of fiscal policies of global leaders on South Asian economies
· Connections between the demographic patterns and economic growth
· Role of imports in economic development
· Interdependencies of fiscal policies within South Asian countries
· Impact of external factors on domestic fiscal policy
· Comparative fiscal performance of Indian states, using latest statistics
Written in lucid and non-technical language, this is an authoritative and in-depth commentary on the essential policy debates of present-day India.
