Exploring the Twin Tracks of Economic and Governance Reforms in the Two States of Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
| Published date | 01 March 2017 |
| Date | 01 March 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019556117689854 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
63(1) 124–135
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DOI: 10.1177/0019556117689854
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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi,
New Delhi, India.
Corresponding author:
Radhika Kumar, Ashirwad Hospital, Sector 11 D, Faridabad, 121006, Haryana, India.
E-mail: radhikaku@hotmail.com
Exploring the Twin
Tracks of Economic and
Governance Reforms
in the Two States of
Madhya Pradesh and
Andhra Pradesh
Radhika Kumar1
Abstract
Second-generation economic reforms in India, a feature of the mid-1990s,
have also included subnational level reforms and restructuring. These reforms
have also run the course of about 15 years with there being many temporal
and spatial variations with regard to experiences of individual states. However,
common to this reform experience are three features. First, that funding for
these reforms has largely come from international financial institutions (IFIs), in
particular, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Second, and
drawing from the first, is the feature that the framework for reforms, develop-
ment sectors covered as well as pace, prospects and outcome of reforms are
determined by the same lending agencies. Third, reforms so initiated have
invariably incorporated ‘good governance’ strategies. What is paradoxical then
is that reform programmes which have been tailor-made to suit the economic
specificities of a given state actually prescribe similar remedies for all. Increased
economic autonomy of state governments in the post-liberalisation period has
been limited to courting the IFIs for reform-linked loans. These loans come with
concomitant conditionalities albeit made politically palatable by the terminology
of good governance. The neoliberal model of development has found a pan-India
appeal with there being little or no state-level variations in its adoption and
implementation.
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