Joshi, Seema creator text xu| 2006 continuing ng p.358-65. The economic crisis of 1990s was precipitated mainly by the growth of public expenditure in the 1980s. An attempt was made to resolve this crisis through the introduction of stabilisation and structural adjustment programmes. One of the important planks of the stabilisation measures was the compression of public expenditure. This has brought to the forefront the issue of "transitional social costs" of stabilisation. This paper attempts to analyse the social sector outlays of the central and the state governments in the pre-reform and post-reform period and assesses the impact these had on the social sector in India. - Reproduced. Economic reform - India Economic reform Economic and Political Weekly 180718