With the commencement of the fourth five year plan, aggressive efforts at institutionalising rural credit commenced, having come to realise that spread of cooperatives did not very much help in the process of agriculture& rural development. Different issues regarding Rural Economics like priorities in agricultural development, banks& rural finance, twenty point programme, fertiliser situation. Cooperative Credit, Regional Rural Banks, field visits & Agriculture Banking etc. have been touched here systematically.

This dictionary has been carefully compiled and edited to provide students of economics at all levels with a handy and reliable source for definitions of economic and financial terms.

Every effort is made to write the entries in a clear and lucid style to provide both straightforward definitions and valuable background information. At some appropriate places, line drawings have been incorporated whenever the meaning of a word can be best understood by means of a diagram.

The dictionary will be of immense value to undergraduate and postgraduate students and to those appearing for competitive examinations, besides the research scholars, teachers, economic administrators, planners, journalists, business managers and the general reader.

There is perhaps no other single aspect of Economics, that has seen so much of turmoil, uncertainty and controversy, as economic policies prescribed for the developing countries. A lot of effort has been made for developing strategies and policy models for these economies. Most of these exercises were fashioned by development economies of the west. Such prescriptions, unfortunately, could not bring the desired change in the economic structure of the developing countries.

This book is an attempt to review the existing ecomic policies in India and suggest some alternative strategies for different aspects of economic policy. The background has been set keeping in view recent changes in Indian economic thinking, especially, the new economic policy of the eighties and the march towards liberalisation of the nineties.

The book should be of interest to the planners and policy makers in the government and researchers in the academic institutions.

Economic thought is a critical account of the development and activities. It is a study of the heritage left by writers on economic subjects. During the course of first five decades of the present century, several new changes took place in regard to the science as well as in the field of economic analysis. The fundamental changes in economics have come to be recognized as a pure science. As distinguished from political economy, a new subject, viz., scientific or analytic economics has been developed, in which new facts have been collected for explaining the phenomena of economic life. A new analytical apparatus known as economic dynamics has been developed and micro-economic analysis has been replaced with micro-economic analysis. Present book deals with the views of some of the most important economists of present century, especially those who have influenced or are still influencing the direction of economic thought and policy. Economics of different origins have been included in this book. The selection has been made arbitrary since in this brief compass.