India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In?order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.

"Getting India Back on Track"?broadly coincides with the 2014 Indian elections to spur a public debate about the program that the next government should pursue in order to return the country to a path of high growth. It convenes some of India's most accomplished analysts to recommend policies in every major sector of the Indian economy. Taken together, these seventeen focused and concise memoranda offer policymakers and the general public alike a clear blueprint for India's future.

Praise for "Getting India Back on Track"

"Bibek Debroy and Ashley J. Tellis have brought together an impressive group of experts who provide a clear road map to move India forward in 2014. Anyone invested in the country's success should read this book." --Arun Shourie, former Indian minister of disinvestment, communication, and information technology

"It is rare to find a group of experts as accomplished and diverse as those represented in "Getting India Back on Track." Their work builds a strong foundation for a real dialogue about India's future at a time when a generational change in India's leadership will set the course for decades to come. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace should be complimented for undertaking such a worthwhile project." --Frank Wisner, former U.S. ambassador to India and former under secretary of defense for policy

"Focusing on a range of key issues, "Getting India Back on Track" has captured the scale and complexity as well as the need for resetting India's policies at the national and state levels. This excellent volume will be a very valuable resource to key policy framers and decisionmakers in India's new government." --Naresh Chandra, former cabinet secretary, and former Indian Ambassador to the United States

Contents

Foreword

Ratan N. Tata (Chairman, Tata Trusts)

Introduction Ashley J. Tellis and Reece Trevor (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

1. Maintaining Macroeconomic Stability Ila Patnaik (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy)

2. Dismantling the Welfare State Surjit Bhalla (Oxus Investments)

3. Revamping Agriculture and the Public Distribution System Ashok Gulati (Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices)

4. Revisiting Manufacturing Policy Rajiv Kumar (Centre for Policy Research)

5. Generating Employment Omkar Goswami (Corporate and Economic Research Group)

6. Expanding Education and Skills Laveesh Bhandari (Indicus Analytics)

7. Confronting Health Challenges A. K. Shiva Kumar (National Advisory Council)

8. Accelerating Infrastructure Modernization Rajiv Lall and Ritu Anand (IDFC Limited)

9. Managing Urbanization Somik Lall and Tara Vishwanath (World Bank)

10. Renovating Land Management Barun Mitra (Liberty Institute)

11. Addressing Water Management Tushaar Shah (International Water Management Institute) and Shilp Verma (independent researcher)

12. Reforming Energy Policy and Pricing Sunjoy Joshi (Observer Research Foundation)

13. Managing the Environment Ligia Noronha (Energy and Resources Institute)

14. Strengthening Rule of Law Devesh Kapur (University of Pennsylvania) and Milan Vaishnav (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

15. Correcting the Administrative Deficit Bibek Debroy (Centre for Policy Research)

16. Building Advanced Technology Capacity for Competitive Arms Acquisition Ravinder Pal Singh (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)

17. Rejuvenating Foreign Policy C. Raja Mohan (Observer Research Foundation and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

This report examines the views of India and Pakistan on the significance of Pakistan's foray into the Kargil-Dras sector in a limited war that has come to be known as the Kargil conflict. The goal of the analysis is to assess both combatants' perceptions of the crisis.

Managing the rise of China constitutes one of the most important challenges facing the United States in the early 21st century. China has always been an important state in the international system because of its large territory, vast resources, and huge population. But its significance for international politics has dramatically increased since 1978, when the market reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping placed China on a course that could lead to rapid transformation of potential resources that had remained untapped. This process is significant not only because it promises the internal transformation of one of the world's oldest civilizations but also because - if concluded successfully - it could result in a dramatic power transition within the international system. The rise of China is consequently of great analytical and policy interest, and examining the determinates of China's grand strategy is critical to any assessment of current and future Chinese security behavior, especially Chinese behavior toward the United States and its allies. This book identifies and analyzes the major factors determining Chinese grand strategy - past, present, and future - to better understand the motives behind Chinese strategic behavior and to assess how such behavior might evolve in the future. The ultimate purpose of such analysis is to more clearly understand whether, and in what manner, China's grand strategy might pose fundamental challenges to U.S. strategic interests.

The study found that India and Pakistan both assume that outside powers, mainly the United States, will intervene to stop any major war on the subcontinent within two weeks after it begins.

The arrival of post-industrial society has transformed the traditional bases of national power, and thus the methods used to measure the relative power of nations should be reassessed as well. Appreciating the true basis of national power requires not merely a meticulous detailing of visible military assets but also a scrutiny of larger capabilities embodied in such variables as the aptitude for innovation, the soundness of social institutions, and the quality of the knowledge base - all of which may bear upon a country's capacity to produce the one element still fundamental to international politics: effective military power. The authors reconfigure the notion of national power to accommodate a wider understanding of capability, advancing a conceptual framework that measures three distinct areas - national resources, national performance, and military capability - to help the intelligence community develop a better evaluation of a country's national power. The analysis elaborates the rationale for assessing each of these and offers ideas on how to measure them in tangible ways.