DATE AND TIME September 8, 2010 12 – 2 PM EDT LOCATION 1st floor/Wintergarden FEATURING Featuring the editor and chief author Ejaz Ghani, Economic Advisor, South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank; with comments by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, Research Fellow, Center …
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To make his coming visit to India meaningful, President Obama needs to combat the impression that India fares better with Republican presidents than Democratic ones, because the latter are instinctively more protectionist. In his quest for economic recovery, he has …
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DATE AND TIME November 19, 2009 10 AM – 6:30 PM EST LOCATION Auditorium/1st floor/Wintergarden FEATURING Mark A. Calabria Senior Advisor, Cato Institute William Poole Former Senior Fellow Lawrence H. White Senior Fellow Ian Vásquez Vice President for International Studies, Cato Institute …
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Sometimes the twists and turns of socialism yield unwitting libertarian outcomes. Indian politicians, who remain socialist at heart despite some recent liberalization, have just enacted a Right to Education Act, giving every child in the 6–14 age group the right to …
Despite being hit by the global recession, the ruling Congress Party‐led coalition swept to an unexpected victory in India’s general election, mainly because of rural prosperity in a country where 70 percent of the population is rural. Good monsoons and high …
The world’s largest democracy, India, is an emerging economic giant. Reforms that began in the late 1980s and accelerated in the 1990s have led to high growth and have reduced poverty by one third. Professor Panagariya will discuss changes in …
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Indian society is being transformed by the decline of the centralized bureaucratic state and the emergence of a market economy. Gurcharan Das will describe how sustained high growth rates are leading to the dramatic rise of the Indian middle class, the …
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