JULY 30, 2020 • POLICY ANALYSIS NO. 898 By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar and Neeraj Kaushal Do historically isolated forest tribes need protection from modernization? Critics claim that modernization, especially through dams and mining, is disastrous for tribes and that tribespeople cannot […]
FEBRUARY 5, 2020 • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN NO. 32 By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar After seven years of negotiations, India has backed out of joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a Free Trade Area (FTA) that was to include 16 countries—the
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MAY 21, 2019 • POLICY ANALYSIS NO. 869 By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar India’s economic reforms since 1991 have largely been a tale of private‐sector success, government failure, and institutional erosion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the 2014 election with the slogan
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OCTOBER 18, 2018 • POLICY ANALYSIS NO. 851 By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been hailed as an economic liberalizer, having sharply criticized rising U.S. protectionism under the Trump administration. Yet Modi too has embarked on
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Join the conversation on Twitter using #CatoEvents. Follow @CatoEvents on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute. DATE AND TIME June 22, 201612 – 1:30 PM EDT LOCATION 1st floor/Wintergarden SHARE THIS EVENT FEATURING Featuring Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar,
Karl Marx was wrong about many things but right about one thing: the revolutionary way capitalism attacks and destroys feudalism. As I explain in a new study, in India, the rise of capitalism since the economic reforms of 1991 has also attacked and
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June marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the “Great Charter of Liberties” that King John of England agreed to and that aimed to limit the Crown’s power. The Magna Carta exerted a significant influence on the development of the
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DATE AND TIME June 11, 201312 – 1:30 PM EDT LOCATION Policy Center with Foyer FEATURING Featuring the author Gurcharan Das, Former CEO of Procter & Gamble, India; with comments by Swaminathan Aiyar, Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian
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