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Financial Sector Reforms in India-Rameshwari
Financial Sector Reforms in India-Rameshwari
Financial Sector Reforms in India-Rameshwari
REFORMS
THE ROAD AHEAD
By;
Rameshwari Kaul
FasE-09/11
INTRODUCTION
Growth in Real GDP Averaged at 6% per Year during
1980-2005. GDP for 2009 is 7%.
India is in an enviable position among developing
countries
Fear of competition is receding – confidence among
Indian industries in their ability to compete in the world
market.
Success of IT is spilling over to manufacturing
India’s standing as an economic power in the South
Asian region and the world has risen
None of this would have happened but for systemic
reforms initiated in 1991
INTRODUCTION
Macroeconomic crisis of 1991
Approach to IMF and the World Bank
Real GDP 3.50 5.9 1.3 7.1 5.5 4.0 6.9 7.0-7.5 8.1
Population 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.9 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.6
Read GDP
1.3 3.8 -0.7 5.2 3.8 2.3 5.3 5.9 6.5
per capita