The Economic Crisis India Needs
My article in Bloomberg Businessweek, on India’s economic crisis–its worst in over two decades. For Manmohan Singh, India’s octogenarian prime minister, the summer of 2013 must seem depressingly familiar. In June 1991, as the nation’s newly installed finance minister, Singh found himself staring down the worst economic crisis to hit India since independence. The nation’s […]
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The Fight Over India’s Future
My article in the Wall Street Journal on the feud between Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati–and what it signifies for India’s economic development. Go for growth or social change? A feud between economists boils over Indian politics isn’t generally known for its intellectual bent, so it was a curious sight last week when two Ivy […]