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Product Description This volume brings together frontline research on the prospects for rapid economic development in South Asia by leading academics and public policy experts. It reviews recent macroeconomic performance in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and examines three emergent challenges for the Indian economy: devising a policy response to climate change, attaining the millennium development goals and restructuring state level finances. The book then analyzes financial sector reforms and development of information and communications technology (ICT) firms and privatization policy in India and the South Asian approach to free trade arrangements and multilateral trade. It studies issues related to foreign perceptions of South Asian development including governance and foreign direct investment flows into India and Nepal. Finally the book studies the impact of the structural composition of economic growth on poverty in India, the evolution of inequality in India and elements of a strategy for poverty reduction in South Asia. Review 'The volume makes for reading which is both entertaining and thought provoking. The book would be of interest to researchers and policy makers in the field of development economics and regional economic cooperation.' - Abinash Dash, South Asia Economic Journal About the Author MOHAMMED ALAUDDIN School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia TALET ANWAR Joint Director, Research Department, State Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan PREMA-CHANDRA ATHUKORALA Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU), Australia SRI BHAGWAN DAHIYA Maharshi Dayanand University, India ANIL DEOLALIKAR Department of Economics, University of California at Riverside, USA DILIP DUTTA School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney, Australia DESH GUPTA Faculty of Management, University of Canberra, Australia STEPHEN HOWES Senior Economist, Wor