Η Ινδία (και πάλι) στο προσκήνιο της ανόδου

Μια συνομιλία με τον Ινδό Υπουργό Οικονομικών Arun Jaitley

 
Ο πρωθυπουργός της Ινδίας Narendra Modi έχει τοποθετήσει την οικονομική ανάπτυξη στο επίκεντρο της πολιτικής ατζέντας του, και  η κυβέρνησή του έχει ολοκληρώσει το πρώτο έτος της θητείας της, με την οικονομία της Ινδίας να έχει ανοδική πορεία. Η Παγκόσμια Τράπεζα προβλέπει ότι μέχρι το επόμενο έτος, ο ρυθμός ανάπτυξης της Ινδίας θα ξεπεράσει αυτόν της Κίνας.

Τι είδους μεταρρυθμίσεις μπορούν να ανοίξουν το δρόμο για την Ινδία για να επιτευχθεί διψήφια ανάπτυξη;

 
Speaker Biographies
Arthur C. Brooks is the president of AEI and the Beth and Ravenel Curry Scholar in Free Enterprise. Until January 1, 2009, he was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University. He is the author of 10 books and many articles on topics ranging from the economics of the arts to applied mathematics. His books include “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” (Basic Books, 2012), “Social Entrepreneurship” (Prentice Hall, 2008), and “Who Really Cares” (Basic Books, 2006). Before pursuing his work in public policy, Brooks spent 12 years as a professional French hornist with the City Orchestra of Barcelona and other ensembles.

Sadanand Dhume is a resident fellow at AEI. He writes about South Asian political economy, foreign policy, business, and society, with a focus on India and Pakistan. He is also a South Asia columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review in India and Indonesia and was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in Washington, DC. His political travelogue about the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia, “My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2009), has been published in four countries. He has twice been selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world’s top 100 Twitterati. Follow him on Twitter @dhume.

Arun Jaitley was appointed as minister of finance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2014. He is a senior advocate in the supreme court and a former additional solicitor general of India. He served as leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Rajya Sabha (upper chamber of the Indian parliament) during 2009–14. He was also a member of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank.