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India’s Tryst with Globalization
Rahul Mukherji
Associate Professor South Asian Studies Pr ogramme
Honorary Senior Fellow, Head (Research)
Institute of South Asian Studies
National University of Singapore
October 16 2014
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Nominal Gross Domestic Product at Purchasing Power Parity - 2011
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2009
2007
Source: Economist Intelligence Unit Database assessed via NUS library web site, 2012
Economic Liberalization & GDP Growth: India
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Public Sector and Economic Self Reliance Private Sector and Economic Self Reliance Private Sector and trade Private Sector and Trade Promotion
3.4%
5.1%
6.2%
8.8%
Comparative GDP Growth: 2003-2012
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The Tipping Point: The Earthquake Model
• Evolutionary Change
• Endogenous change
• Appearance and reality
• Ideas within the state matter
• This is not the East Asian developmental state
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Reasons for Resisting Globalization
From pre - colonial to colonial experience
Powerful Economic Ideas
• Import substitution or economic self reliance
• Public sector and private companies
• Large country and economic self reliance
Why the transition from import substitution to trade promotion?
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The Old Model
• Nehru Vs Patel
• The Old Consensus - Second Five-Year Plan (1956-61)
1. Foundational Idea
2. Heavy Industries
3. Neglect of agriculture
7 Sardar Patel (left) & Jawaharlal Nehru (Right)
Gradual Globalization and Deregulation – The 1980s
PM Desai
1977-79
– New Ideas
– Help Indian companies but not trade
– Political resistance
– Bias favoring status quo
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PM Indira Gandhi 1966-75; 1980-84 PM Rajiv Gandhi 1984-89
The Tipping Point in 1991
Why globalization and deregulation?
New Economic Ideas
Balance of Payments Crisis
Economic Crisis and Domestic Opposition
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PM Rao Manmohan Singh 1991-96 Finance Minister: 1991-96 PM: 2004-2014
Economic Reforms of 1991
Economic Reforms
1. Reduction in Tariffs
2. Devaluation & competitiveness
3. Industrial Deregulation
4. Foreign Investment
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The Role of Private Companies
• Deregulation helped Indian Private Companies
– The Tata Group Ratan Tata – Infosys: The Software Giant
– A New Business Class – India and China
N R Narayana Murthy (Infosys)
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Roots of Competitiveness
• Success – Telecommunications – Banks PM Vajpayee (1998-2004)
– Stock Markets • Failures
– Ports Sunil Mittal
– Power
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Why Foreign Investors Should Care?
• India is not China
• Why should investors care?
• What should an investor do?
• The success of J C Bamford against Caterpillar
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Amartya Sen Versus Jagdish Bhagwati: State versus Market?
14 Authors: top left – Sen; bottom left – Dreze; top right – Bhagwati; bottom right - Panagariya
Human Development in South Asia
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Can Narendra Modi succeed with globalization?
• Ideas Matter – Inspiring speaker & good administrator
– Jan Dhan Yojana
– Employment & right to information
– Investor sentiment & easy visas
• Worries – Inexperienced ministers
– Trade facilitation
– Better regulation
– Minority rights and social peace See: http://www.pmvisit.org/ (Madison Square Garden Speech)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1iTDUnsqQ (Modi at Times Square)
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