Economic liberalisation

Economies of UP and Bihar

The author disputes the claim that UP and Bihar are poor because they are landlocked, noting coastal states only prospered after liberalisation and that coastal industries are a small share…

Ace of Spades18 November 20252 comments
The damage done to third world countries by Harvard and UChicago

Prompted by an Economist article on Bolsonaro’s Chicago-trained economist, the author argues that US-trained ‘luminaries’ harmed third-world countries including Pakistan, quoting at length on the Chicago Boys’ market reforms in…

AbdulMajeed Abid26 May 20192 comments
Permit-raj for bonsais

Recalling how India’s permit-raj throttled even telephone connections, the poster presents Aatish Taseer’s argument that the Congress ran an internal permit-raj, cultivating bonsai leaders who never grow big enough to…

Brown Pundits Archive21 May 20140 comments
Modi Sarkar Predictions

Writing as a non-expert, the poster predicts that a capitalism-friendly government under a leader with real power will let a lot of people make a lot of money in India,…

Brown Pundits Archive20 May 201420 comments

Economies of UP and Bihar