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A lot of pessimism about India. I grew up in the 1970s--we used have long lines for everything. Telephone line took 10 years. My mother tells me that there was
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The first thing that strikes an immigrant from the third world is how smoothly things function--things provided by the state. Pavements are clean, roads are smooth, signs are clear. When
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I am reading Dennis Kux's second book: Disenchanted Allies--this one about US-Pakistan relationship. Finished the other one Estranged Democracies--which is about US-India. One thing is clear--US always had misgivings about
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IG as a precursor to Thatcher and Reagan. First, a little background. People forget that IG, as a new PM, took the advice of experts and liberalizers, incl. Bhagwati to
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Good interview by @dugalira with Viral Acharya. Some good points--lack of disinvestment--mixed up with a lot of boilerplate stuff about CB independence, inflation credibility that seems to have not kept
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Thread on why India could not have emulated South Korea. First, the different colonial experiences. Japanese left Korea with a much higher level of literacy, better bureacracy, and better records.
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