Alternative Economic Survey, India
The Alternative Economic Survey, India is prepared by the Alternative Survey Group, an informal group of concerned social scientists, academicians, journalists, and social and trade union activists from all over the country. Coming together in the wake of the imposition of the Structural Adjustment Programme at the behest of the World Bank and the IMF in 1991, the Group has been attempting to present a realistic, people-centred picture of the state of the Indian economy and society, and the disastrous results of so-called economic ‘reforms’. Written for the average concerned reader, it also demystifies the window dressing and disinformation attempted by the official Economic Survey and seeks to evolve elements of an alternative people friendly policy regime.
The Group, starting from 1992 onward, has prepared fifteen editions so far, which have been published by various publishing groups like PIRG, Wiley Eastern, Delhi Science Forum, Rainbow Publishers, Zed Books and Daanish Books.