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Development and Public Finance
Essays in Honour of Raja J Chelliah
First Edition
Edited by:
- D. K. Srivastava - Chief Policy Advisor, EY India, Honorary Professor, Madras School of Economics
- U. Sankar - Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India
March 2012 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Development and Public Finance is a commemorative volume on late Dr Raja J. Chelliah, one of the foremost Public Finance experts of India. It is designed as a compendium of essays on contemporary issues of Public Finance and Development, focusing on the rapidly globalizing Indian economy. Well-known scholars and experts have contributed insightful articles to this collection.
All contributions have been exclusively invited for this publication. They represent a weaving of interdependent themes of Development and Public Finance and are sequentially arranged to reflect their interrelationships. Some of the important topics analyzed by the articles are: divestment and privatization; financial transaction tax; carbon tax; fiscal federalism; goods and service tax; decentralization; social policy; and climate change.
Not only is this volume academically rich, it also has an entire section where Dr Chelliah's peers and colleagues talk about him and how they saw him-the man they variously describe as a great scholar, a brilliant economist, and an indomitable crusader.
C Rangarajan
Foreword
D K Srivastava and U Sankar
Introduction and Overview
1: PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC FINANCE
| On Strategies for Disinvestment and Privatization | Vijay Kelkar |
| Financial Transactions Taxes | Parthasarathi Shome |
| Issues in Design and Implementation of a Carbon Tax System in India | U Sankar |
| Economic Analysis of India's Double Tax Avoidance Agreements | Arindam Das-Gupta |
| A Political Cost Model of Fiscal Federalism: Some Empirical Results from Indian Federation | Shyam Nath |
| Tax Effort of Indian States, 2002-2007 | Indira Rajaraman and Rajan Goyal |
| On the Political Economy of Fiscal Imbalances in India | D K Srivastava |
| When Should Budget Deficit Be a Serious Concern? | Subra Ramamuthy |
| Revenue Estimation for Goods and Services Tax | Mahesh C Purohit and Vishnu Kanta Purohit |
2: PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT
| Contours of Central Banking: Have They Changed? | C Rangarajan |
| Decentralization and Economic Development: Issues in Policy and Institutional Reform | M Govinda Rao |
| Modelling Social Choice Policy | Jaya Krishnakumar, Paola Ballon & Juan Tellez |
| Decentralization in India: Outcomes and Opportunities | Kaliappa Kalirajan & Keijiro Otsuka |
| Globalization of Knowledge Development | N S Siddharthan |
| Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation Policies in India | K S Kavi Kumar |
| Regional Growth Convergence in Indian States: A Panel-Data Approach | K R Shanmugam |
| Investment and Subsidies in Indian Agriculture: One Variation on a Theme by Dr Raja J Chelliah | Raghbendra Jha |
| Credit, Bank Branching and Output: Evidence from Indian States | Kausik Chaudhuri and Mary Cherical |
3: DR RAJA J CHELLIAH: IN MEMORIAM
| A Biographical Sketch | D K Srivastava |
| Raja Chelliah: Economist without an Honorific 'Indian' | Deena Khatkhate |
| Dr Chelliah: Great Crusader for Fiscal Reforms | Subra Ramamurthy |
| Raja Chelliah: An Indomitable Crusader | T S Rangamannar |
Index