How Property and Civil Rights Help Forest Tribes Modernize and Prosper: Lessons from India
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
India Should Join Asia’s New Free‐Trade Area
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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A Reform Agenda for the Next Indian Government
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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India’s New Protectionism Threatens Gains from Economic Reform
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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Twenty‐Five Years of Indian Economic Reform: India’s Record and Prospects of Becoming a Major World Power
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,
How Capitalism Is Undermining the Indian Caste System
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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