Through the transformative period between eighth and twelfth five-year plans wherein India’s trade saw greater integration with the world, the...

Barring surpluses during the fourth and fifth five-year plans, the Balance of Payment situation continuously worsened over the first four decades...

Through the plan period, India progressively shifted its focus from import substitution to export promotion — by trading in newer commodities and...

The post-liberalisation expansion of trade in the Indian economy — coupled with a surge in services trade a decade later and a slew of effective...

In sync with India’s goal of self-reliance and establishing heavy industries, the first six five-year plans pursued the trade policy of import...

Credit to the explicit focus laid on poverty eradication since the rollout of the fifth five-year plan, India has come a long way in its fight against...

This first segment of a two-part article on poverty discusses in detail the various methods of poverty estimation deployed through the modern Indian...

Despite explicit focus and tit bit measures, unemployment, as an intractable problem, persisted through the plan periods without any directional...

Explicit focus had been laid on reducing unemployment since 1956, and considerable progress was made during the first six five-year plans, but the...

Despite fluctuations, industrial development progressed at a steady pace through the five-year plans, but the share of manufacturing stagnated towards...

The skewed benefits of irrigation, fertiliser use and HYVs under the New Agriculture Strategy, coupled with heavy cost on account of high fertiliser...

Though growth targets were seldom met in the agriculture and allied sectors through the five-year plans, production and crop yield increased in...