India's Public Finance and Policy Challenges in the 2020s (Hardcover)

Introducing the Volume on India's Contemporary Public Finance Themes.- Part I: Fiscal Policy and Macro-economy: Can We Become a Viksit Bharat Or Will Be Caught In The Middle Income Trap?.- Regime Switching Approach to Growth Cycles and Fiscal Policy.- Are Fiscal Transfers Pushing the FRBM Targets Beyond Centre's Reach?.- Sustainability and Growth Implications of Subnational Fiscal Choices in India: A Case of Kerala.- Part II: Public Expenditure Policy.- Prioritization and Rationalization of Government Schemes: A Case Study.- Efficiency Decomposition of Public Expenditure - Evidence from Indian States.- Examining the Interplay of Prioritisation of Public Expenditure on Health and Education and Absorption Capacity of the States.- Part III: Tax Policy.- Estimating State Level Tax Effort in India: A Panel Data Model.- How did Transition to GST Regime Affect Inflation in India?.- Has GST Contributed to Price Convergence Among Indian States?.- Corporate Tax and Carbon Emissions in Indian Manufacturing Sector.- Part IV: Fiscal Transfers Policy.- Fiscal Transfers, Regional Development and Inequality.- Evolution of Inter-se Share of States in Tax Devolution: Who Lost, Who Gained, and Why?.- Designing Health Equalization Transfers to Indian States.- Unravelling Intergovernmental Transfer's Dual Impact on Growth and Social Sector Development in the Context of North-East India.- Part V. Public Debt Policy.- Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth in BRICS Economies.- Role of Macroeconomic Channels in the Debt - Growth Nexus: Evidence of Nonlinearity.- Measuring Horizontal Fiscal Imbalance Amongst Indian States: A Club Convergence Approach.- PART VI: Environment and Climate Finance Policy.- The Path to Net Zero: Challenges and Opportunities.- Financing Climate Change Adaptation: A Critical Review.- Tamil Nadu's Sustainable Triumph: Examining the economic and financial impacts of Single Use Plastics Ban and the promotion of eco-alternative products in Tamil Nadu.- Climate Finance for Adaptation and Sustainable Development in India.- Climate Change and Fiscal policy for the Green Economy in India.