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1983 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Employment Strategies of the Indian Five-Year Plans: Reasons for their Failure

verfasst von : Brahmananda Prasad

Erschienen in: Employment Policy in a Developing Country A Case-study of India Volume 2

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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The central objective of economic planning, in India, was ‘to initiate a process of development which would raise living standards and create new opportunities for a richer and more varied life’. (Govt. of India, 1952, p. 7). Poverty and unemployment which were widespread and often extreme, were India’s chief problems. Indian plans were fully alive to the problem of unemployment and adopted various strategies for its solution. These strategies are discussed below, under the appropriate plan heading.

Metadaten
Titel
The Employment Strategies of the Indian Five-Year Plans: Reasons for their Failure
verfasst von
Brahmananda Prasad
Copyright-Jahr
1983
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06646-9_1