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How Responsive Are India’s Regulators?

India’s transition to private markets is predicated on how well it regulates private activities across a range of economic sectors, such as finance, telecom, and infrastructure.

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By Anirudh Burman and Bhargavi Zaveri
Published on Apr 19, 2019
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This program studies contemporary developments in India’s political economy, with a view towards understanding and informing India’s developmental choices. Scholars in the program analyze economic and regulatory policies, design and working of public institutions, interfaces between politics and the economy, and performance of key sectors of the economy such as finance and land.

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India’s transition to private markets is predicated on how well it regulates private activities across a range of economic sectors such as finance, telecom, and infrastructure. Since 1991, the government has signaled its willingness to regulate private markets technocratically and neutrally by creating independent regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Board of India, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, and others. 

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About the Authors

Anirudh Burman

Former Associate Research Director and Fellow, Carnegie India

Anirudh Burman was an associate research director and fellow at Carnegie India. He works on key issues relating to public institutions, public administration, the administrative and regulatory state, and state capacity.

Bhargavi Zaveri

Bhargavi Zaveri is part of the Finance Research Group, Mumbai. She works in the areas of financial regulation, land and access to finance and regulatory governance. She has previously held research positions at IGIDR, the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and the Harvard Law School. She has advised the Ministry of Finance on issues relating to financial regulation. She has published academic work on Indian financial regulation in Indian and international journals. She often writes about land and access to finance in the public media.

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Anirudh Burman
Former Associate Research Director and Fellow, Carnegie India
Anirudh Burman
Bhargavi Zaveri

Bhargavi Zaveri is part of the Finance Research Group, Mumbai. She works in the areas of financial regulation, land and access to finance and regulatory governance. She has previously held research positions at IGIDR, the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and the Harvard Law School. She has advised the Ministry of Finance on issues relating to financial regulation. She has published academic work on Indian financial regulation in Indian and international journals. She often writes about land and access to finance in the public media.

Bhargavi Zaveri
Domestic PoliticsEconomyIndia

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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