Shruti Rajagopalan on India’s Missed Reforms and What Went Wrong After 1991

30th April 2025

Shruti Rajagopalan joins FED Director Rahul Ahluwalia on episode 14 of Growth is Good to discuss why modern India's economic history needs a chapter of its own: What was life like under the pre-1991 shortage economy? Why has liberalization been so poorly taught and understood? How did the quiet, crisis-driven nature of the 1991 reforms affect what came next? And what will it take to keep the case for reform alive so that, when the political window opens, deregulation can be written into law?

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