Contemporary Issues in Punjab Economy: A Roadmap Ahead

Punjab economy is struggling with slowdown of agriculture sector and absence of versatile industrial and tertiary sectors. Apart from deceleration of growth, Punjab agriculture is facingnumerous issues of sustainability like lack of diversification, rising costs and declining profitability, water depletion and the problem of stubble burning. Punjab’s demographic structure ischanging with continuous outflow of human capital either to developed economies or to other states within India where better job opportunities are available for educated youth. This book is an attempt to highlight the most important issues confronting the Punjab economy so as to arrive at some policysolutions