scholarly journals Non-performing assets of banks and economicgrowth vinculum in the era of globalization: The Indian experience

Author(s):  
Sovik Mukherjee

The introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1991 by the Government of India (GoI) made it very clear that the viability of commercial banks is conditioned on their ability to make profits. In a globalized world, the whims and fancies of business cycles govern the fate of banks and a recessionary phase hampers the bank’s ability to pile on the profits thereby increasing their stock of non-performing assets. India, recently, is placed in a very bizarre situation, — some of the renowned banks are reporting huge losses but there is a very limited impact on stock markets. Strategically, the government, however, has taken corrective measures to arrest the growth of non-performing assets (NPAs) of banks. This paper builds upon a time series model capturing the position of NPAs of banks in India (excluding foreign banks operating in India). Empirically, there is a uni-directional causal relationship running from NPAs of banks to growth. Theoretically, what we can conclude is that imposing strict lending norms on banks actually manifests itself into a deeper recession, lowers growth and in turn aggravates the NPA problem further.

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
N R Sheth

The process of rationalization and liberalization dominating the government's new economic policy (NEP) is an inevitable part of India's need to exist and grow with dignity in the emerging global economy. While this implies freedom and flexibility for industry, this has also led to incidence of labour redundancy, unemployment and casualization. With the government committed to full employment in the current five-year plan and the trade unions bearing a crucial social responsibility to protect workers' interests, the industrial relations issues involved in NEP need to be resolved amicably. This paper by N R Sheth examines these issues in detail and discusses the need for a meaningful dialogue among the various concerned parties in an atmosphere of mutual trust.


2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Shome

Malaysia’s affirmative action, introduced as the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1971 to redress Malay economic setbacks, failed in its objective of acquiring for the Malay public companies the 30 percent equity of Malaysian public companies by 1991. The government believed that the NEP’s affirmative action, boosted by Malay political primacy, was a recipe for the creation of entrepreneurship. While not minimizing the role it justifiably plays for marginalized societies, affirmative action for the creation of entrepreneurs is questionable. This paper attempts to explain that state assistance to an economically-challenged society does little to create entrepreneurship, and because of its dependency ethos, is likely to inhibit the survival instincts and gumption necessary to face the challenges of entrepreneurship. It offers a proposition: in the context of Malaysia, selective assistance under affirmative action invites cronyism which non-Malay entrepreneurs resent and react with even higher competitive resilience by organizing themselves more collaboratively and optimizing their resources.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mudaser Ahad Bhat

Macroeconomic factors such as low inflation, export orientation and low labor taxes help to determine how much employment is created by growth. The relationship between growth and employment is strong and positive which gets enlightened when all macroeconomic policies work in harmony. Indian economy at the time of independence was mainly rural in nature and in a bad state. This was due to the anti-Indian policies of the British Government. The country was engulfed by the vicious circle of poverty and to break this vicious circle Government of India planned in a focused way. The emphasis shifted from agriculture to industry. Also emphasis was laid on increasing role of the state to generate employment and reduce poverty by appropriate macroeconomic policies. However, little was achieved till 1990’s. So the path to long-run economic growth was ensured by introducing New Economic Policy in 1991, which aimed at reducing fiscal deficits, lowering inflation, maintaining exchange rate stability etc. One thing that was obvious was that under New Economic Policy, the public sector will have a diminished role and will be largely limited to social sectors and non-profit making activities unattractive to the private sector. These policy changes affected macroeconomic policies of the government. Despite these policy changes brought under the New Economic Policy, one feature that still remains an important feature of macroeconomic policies in India is that macroeconomic policies still continue to act more as the control devices rather than as development tools. As a result macroeconomic policies fail to generate additional employment. Macroeconomic policies need to be converted into tools for macroeconomic stabilization (Shah, 2008). There are various constraints in macroeconomic policies which refrain them to act as development tools and thereby increase unemployment levels in underdeveloped economies of the world. The present paper attempts to highlight such constraints and suggest remedial measures.


2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa GODO

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe regained power in end 2012. Almost simultaneously, Japan's economy started flourishing. Abe proclaims that his new economic policy called Abenomics is responsible for the growth. Since many factors account for the current economic boom, it is uncertain how much comes from Abenomics. It is, however, quite certain that Abenomics has worsened the financial condition of the government, which is already struggling with dangerous budgetary problems.


1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Rakesh Basant

Any analysis of the Intellectual Property Rights relating to the seed industry in India needs to take cognizance of three interrelated issues: (a) that the current debate on IPR is part of a larger debate on issues relating to GATT; (b) that the options on IPR are intricately linked to the New Economic Policy and the accompanying liberalization process; and (c) that the IPR relating to plant varieties need to be seen in a broader framework of the seed policy pursued by the government. In this background, this paper by Rakesh Basant reviews the available literature and data to explore the impact of IPR on the seed industry in India.


2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Г. Л. Гуфман

The scientific article is focused on the research of conceptual bases of public policy in Ukraine in the XX century in the historian legal discovery. The author has established that a financial and tax system, from the moment of declaration of the Soviet power in the territory of Ukraine, underwent serious transformation, the economic policy was directed to maintenance and strengthening of the power, preservation of an economic mechanism and creating favorable conditions for economic recovery. And the economic program is proclaimed still the Bolshevist power provided: Establishment of the progressive income tax; to cancellation of indirect taxes on necessities; establishment of high taxes on luxury goods. At the first stages of the XX century no new types of tax were established, behind an exception the expansion of the bases of application of penalties and only in 1917 it was indicated the need of legal collection of the taxes imposed by provisional government. It defined that the new economic policy was proclaimed for the purpose of restoration of commodity economy, revival of almost cancelled monetary taxes, from the ideas to a central and their principles of decentralization and partial denationalization. However, discrepancy of the made tax decisions, which took root on general level, turned out to be consequence strengthening of planned methods and mediate in administrative control, which constantly amplified arbitrariness from the state. The attention has been focused on the fact that post-war years of the government budget was subordinated to the solution of the major task to mitigation of consequences of war and restoration of the destroyed economy of the country. Growth of receipts in the budget in the form of tax from a turn and assignments from the profit of the restored industrial enterprises allowed to lower taxes on the population a few. Since January 1, 1946 a war tax was cancelled, and since September of the same year the free minimum for workers and employees was raised. The author has reasonably introduced the need for the periodization of the formation of the public tax policy, which is offered for considering through a prism of division into six main stages.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Viktor Savchenko

This paper examines a virtually unknown period of the development of the anarchist movement in Ukraine, ignored by both Soviet and post-Soviet historians, for whom the history of anarchism in the Soviet Union ended in 1921. The author,basing his information on archival materials,including the archives of the Soviet secret police agencies (ChK, GPU, OGPU), extends the life of the anarchist movement through the mid-1920s. This was a period of revitalization of the movement, especially among students, young workers, and the unemployed in the cities of Eastern and Southern Ukraine (Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Poltava). Despite repression by the government, the anarchist movement in the USSR in the 1920s was able to sustain itself by going underground.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
S. Prabhu

After Independence our country followed the task of nation building through the doctrine of centralized planning. India at that time was a doctrinaire of the state controlled economy. Therefore it opted the concept of mixed economy in which both public and private sector co-existed. The public sector reached the commanding heights of economy and private was strictly under the control of state centralized planning mechanism. The licensing and control had placed great powers in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians. In the year P.V.Narsimha Rao government was announced the New Economic Policy by making radical departure from Nehruvian philosophy and heralding the era of liberalization and free market economy and government which devalued the rupee and announced far reaching reforms in trade, Industrial and scal area. The liberalization and globalization of Indian economy under new economic policy re dened the role of government and bureaucracy in the form of downsizing or right sizing of the government based on this strength of staff in many departments and some of the ofces were closed . In the context of globalization private sector assume greater importance, therefore our country have to create regulatory bureaucracy on the model of Independent Regulatory Commission of USA. But enough attention is not being paid to this question by the government. Our current bureaucratic system do not have the expertise to undertake the new tasks effectively in the context of liberalization and globalization in Indian public administration in order to give better service delivery. ABSTRACT KEYWORDS : Nation Building,


2012 ◽  
pp. 96-114
Author(s):  
L. Tsedilin

The article analyzes the pre-revolutionary and the Soviet experience of the protectionist policies. Special attention is paid to the external economic policy during the times of NEP (New Economic Policy), socialist industrialization and the years of 1970-1980s. The results of the state monopoly on foreign trade and currency transactions in the Soviet Union are summarized; the economic integration in the frames of Comecon is assessed.


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