Management of State Finances

Contents: Introduction. 1. States' debt problem: a study of selected states/Dipankar Coondoo. 2. Management of state finances: issues and options/Debendra Kumar Das. 3. Management of state finances--an analysis of state level data in the 1990s/Sanjib Chandra Basu, Asim K. Karmakar and Santanu Ghosh. 4. Fiscal scenario and resource mobilisation in West Bengal/Suresh Chandra Srivastava. 5. West Bengal finances: a comparison with Andhra Pradesh/Alok K. Chattopadhyay. 6. State finances in India and West Bengal--an overview/Kalyan Das and Parthasarathi Chakraborty. 7. State Finance and market borrowing of West Bengal: a note/Sourabh Sinha Roy. 8. State finance in West Bengal: some issues/Prankrishna Pal. 9. Future of West Bengal economy/Dilip Ghosh. 10. Management of fiscal deficit of West Bengal/Debesh Bhowmik and Iti Mukherjee. 11. Panchayat Finance in the post-economic reforms era: a study of three districts in West Bengal/Subrata Kumar Ray and Kuldip Saha. 12. Management of state finances in West Bengal: a note/Isha Dasgupta. 13. A short note on management of state finances in West Bengal/Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya. 14. A note on management of state finances in West Bengal/Kalipada Basu. 15. A note on resource crunch in state finance in West Bengal/Atas Kr. Banerjee. 16. Management of state finance and growth of industry in West Bengal: with reference to Murshidabad District/Kishor Kumar Roy Chowdhury. Appendix. Index.