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Modi: One Year On
Narendra Modi’s number one priority is the economy. But while he deserves some credit for improving India’s macroeconomic performance, he has been slow to enact bold reforms that could improve the business climate and the functioning of government.
Published on May 2, 2015
Source: Monocle
As Narendra Modi completes a year in office, Monocle’s Steve Bloomfield is joined by Milan Vaishnav and Shashank Bengali to discuss where the world’s largest democracy is today.
Vaishnav begins by saying that Modi’s number one priority is the economy, and that he deserves some credit for improving India’s macroeconomic performance. However, he has been slow to enact bold reforms that could improve the business climate and the functioning of government. Vaishnav also notes that Modi has avoided addressing hot-button social issues himself, yet he has declined to condemn& inflammatory comments from his allies in the BJP and RSS.
About the Author
Milan Vaishnav
Director and Senior Fellow, South Asia Program
Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program and the host of the Grand Tamasha podcast at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior. He also conducts research on the Indian diaspora.
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