16 Questions
What was dichotomised into political and fiscal parts after the reforms in 1991?
Federalism
What paradigm's theoretical infirmities have generated contradictions in India's fiscal federalism since 1991?
Sound finance paradigm
What has eroded the relative autonomy of the state in India since 1991?
Political drive to facilitate macroeconomic expansion
Who are the authors of the article 'Fiscal Federalism’ in India since 1991 Infirmities of Sound Finance Paradigm'?
Chirashree Das Gupta and Surajit Mazumdar
What has been a feature of India's social and economic trajectory at least since the 1960s?
Widening regional disparity
Who teaches at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi?
Surajit Mazumdar
What has the process of economic reforms since 1991 accentuated?
Regional disparity between and within states
What is a characteristic of the intensification of regional disparity mentioned in the text?
Wider sectoral disparities, especially between agriculture and non-agriculture
What has remained practically unchanged in terms of per capita income levels in the last three decades?
The relative ranks of different states
Which state was designated as a 'miracle' in the corporate media after the first National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government came to power in November 2005?
Bihar
What showed sturdy resistance to any buoyant response to economic growth in low-income states?
Tax to gross state domestic product (GSDP) ratios
What has had very little impact on social disparities within low-income states even in terms of the minimum indices of human development?
The content of growth in low-income states
What has become muted 25 years after the economic reforms in India?
Debates around federalism
What informed not only the making of the Indian Constitution but also shaped the politics of centre–state relations?
'Federalism' after independence
What started growing faster than the national average for a period of about five years since 2005?
Four low-income states of India
What increased for Bihar government along with an evident negative divergence in per capita development expenditure from the national average by 2010–11?
Reliance on central resources for development expenditure
Explore the dynamics and contradictions of fiscal federalism in India since the economic reforms of 1991, and its impact on the political aspect of federalism. Understand the theoretical infirmities of the sound finance paradigm within this context.
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