India's window of opportunity

[Harsha]

20 years is certainly pretty small period in terms of history, I being in Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, the man who turned mosquito swamp to modern economy recently on his visit to India told tryst with destiny for India has come once again. I'm looking around for his speech manuscript.

 

In the mean time, a good read that says we spend more time arguing than acting.

The next 20 years are crucial. India can choose to act now and get rich, or its people can continue to argue, stay poor -- and become old. Indian policy makers can't continue to chew cud on state-asset sales, urban renewal, capital account convertibility and labor-market flexibility.

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