4. Government Policies Toward Industry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Tables xiii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The Growth of India’s Steel Industry 8
7. 3. Factor Endowments and Resource Allocation 25
8. 4. Government Policies Toward Industry 53
9. 5. Government Control of India's Steel Industry 78
10. 6. An Economic Justification for Expansion of India’s Steel Industry 110
11. 7. The Demand for Indian Steel 127
12. 8. The Performance of Indian Steel Mills 153
13. 9. The Location of Indian Steel Mills 186
14. 10. Small Pig Iron Plants: The Use of Unconventional Methods of Producing Iron 217
15. 11. The Planned Growth of India's Steel Industry: A Summary 231
16. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index
17. Appendix A. Indian Reserves of Coking Coal 239
18. Appendix B. The Financial History of the Indian Steel Industry prior to 1939 243
19. Appendix C. Assumptions Underlying the Estimation of Full Cost Prices for Indian Steel in Chapter 5 251
20. Appendix D. Internal Social Rate of Return and Present Value of Return from Investment in a 258
21. Appendix E. Application of Regression Analysis to a Study of Indian Demand for Steel 266
22. Appendix F. Data Pertaining to the Locations of Actual and Hypothetical Steel Mills— A Statistical Appendix to Chapter 9 281
23. Appendix G. A Cost Analysis of Proposed Locations for New Indian Steel Mills 294
24. Appendix H. A Steel Plant in Madras 303
25. Bibliography 311
26. Index 327
27. Selected RAND Books 339