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Episode 26: What's Holding India Back? · Trumponomics

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  Speaker 1: Modi has to contend with two chambers of Parliament, twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine state governments, and a fiercely independent judiciary that thinks
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  Speaker 1: nothing of tossing out key government decisions such as who
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  Speaker 1: to cell phone licenses get awarded to. So, Dan, are
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  Speaker 1: you saying that there's maybe too much democracy in India?
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  Speaker 1: to Bloomberg Benchmark, a podcas pasked about the global economy.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday, February. I'm Daniel Moss, Executive editor for Global
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  Speaker 1: Economics in New York. I'm joined by my co host,
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  Speaker 1: Aki Eto, the acting Tokyo Bureau Chief. Aki Good evening,
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  Speaker 1: Hi Dan, how are you? I'm pretty good? Thanks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we were thinking it's about time we took benchmark on
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  Speaker 1: the road again and talked about about India. It's often
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  Speaker 1: compared with China as a rising economic and political power,
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  Speaker 1: yet probably receives a fraction of the column inches or
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  Speaker 1: airtime that China gets, and when it does attract attention,
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  Speaker 1: it's often in the context of natural or man made disasters.
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  Speaker 1: And yet there's a compelling economic story to be told. Aki,
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  Speaker 1: you probably know India has a ton of people. It
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  Speaker 1: actually has almost one point three billion, and by the
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  Speaker 1: end of two which is not that far away, according
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  Speaker 1: to the u N, it will have more people than
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  Speaker 1: China in it. It was also the fastest growing major
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  Speaker 1: economy in the world last gear, clocking in at seven
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  Speaker 1: point three That easily beat China's six point eight percent
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  Speaker 1: and was streets ahead of, say, the US, which grew
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  Speaker 1: at about two pc. India is also a major manufacturing
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  Speaker 1: center for the auto industry, for engineering equipment, for electronic components.
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  Speaker 1: It has a huge software industry and a vibrant services sector, exporting,
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  Speaker 1: among other things, Bollywood. So I guess there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of potential here but also some disappointment. So about two
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  Speaker 1: years ago, I think Prime Minister Moody was elected on
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  Speaker 1: a platform of economic opening and reform. His bj B
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  Speaker 1: party scored one of the biggest ones ever and it
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty exciting moment. But his administration has come
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  Speaker 1: under a lot of fire for really not moving fast
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  Speaker 1: enough on these reforms. The federal budget, which is sold
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  Speaker 1: for release next week, offers the chance of a reset,
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  Speaker 1: a chance to align policy priorities with the vision that
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  Speaker 1: was sold for a more productive, a more dynamic, business
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  Speaker 1: friendly India. It's not an easy place to govern. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go back in time for a moment. The election of
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  Speaker 1: the Modi government was a very big deal. The whole
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  Speaker 1: series of front page stories in big American papers, this
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  Speaker 1: sense that the rest of India would become like Gudge right,
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  Speaker 1: that's the state north of Mumbai that Modi ran as
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  Speaker 1: Chief minister. Chief Minister is kind of like a governor
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  Speaker 1: in the US. India would be open for business, the
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  Speaker 1: shackles would be freed, well, not so fast. Unlike China,
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  Speaker 1: Modi has to contend with two chambers of Parliament, twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine state governments, and a fiercely independent judiciary that thinks
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  Speaker 1: nothing of tossing out key government decisions such as who
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  Speaker 1: to cell phone licenses get awarded to So, Dan, are
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  Speaker 1: you saying that there's maybe too much democracy in India?
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  Speaker 1: I would never want to say there's too much democracy anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: but there are some things holding the country back. Joining
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  Speaker 1: us from our bureau in New Delhi is Uni Krishnan,
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  Speaker 1: who covers economics and government in India. Uni Hi Hi
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hiarchy, Hey, when you welcome to the show. I've
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  Speaker 1: heard that you've met Prime Minister Modi uh and that
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  Speaker 1: you've reported on his administration since its beginning in fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: So you know from what you see over there, has
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  Speaker 1: he failed relative to the expectations that were placed on him.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think it's been. It's been a mixed
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  Speaker 1: recordom and it's Bunster Moody has had a few hits
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  Speaker 1: and some misses. Um. I mean, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the global economic map, where else in the world will
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  Speaker 1: you find economy that's expanding over seven percent and inflation
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  Speaker 1: that's moderating in a currency it's been largely stable apart
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  Speaker 1: from India. It's now the fastest growing economy in the world,
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  Speaker 1: even though relatively it's size and smaller compared to the
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  Speaker 1: United States or even China. But that's the good part
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  Speaker 1: now that's not so good. Parts so far has been
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  Speaker 1: the primister movie has had limited success in scrapping wasteful expenditure,
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  Speaker 1: something it promised when he got that historic mandate in
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  Speaker 1: elections in he also promised of um cutting back subsidies.
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  Speaker 1: These were like the large reforms that were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: reset the economy and put it on a on a
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  Speaker 1: faster growth path. He also promised scrapping leaky food distribution system. Now,
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  Speaker 1: remember all these are very unpopular decisions and traditionally in
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  Speaker 1: India governments can manage to do these things in their
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  Speaker 1: first few years in office, and that's what was what
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  Speaker 1: was expected from Prime Minister Moody because he had won
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  Speaker 1: the election on the development card. Now a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't happened. There's been something incremental step, but it's
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  Speaker 1: been a very slow movement. There's been There was a
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  Speaker 1: promise of a manistionwide sales tax that's been stuck in
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  Speaker 1: Parliament for over your now, so that those are the
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  Speaker 1: areas where he's underwhelmed. A lot of disruptive steps were expected,
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  Speaker 1: but what we've been witnessing over the past two years
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  Speaker 1: is actually incrementally changed. Ernie let's rewind the tape for
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  Speaker 1: two years. How did expectations get so high? And do
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  Speaker 1: they matter anyway? Is there a chance that when his
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  Speaker 1: term ends, people will look back and say some of
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  Speaker 1: these steps were nothing short of revolutionary. They just took
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  Speaker 1: a while to happen. And you know, watching the lamb
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  Speaker 1: sausage being made can be pretty painful, but ultimately it's
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  Speaker 1: the results you want to taste. And then that's part
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  Speaker 1: partly to whatever you said. You know, the steps step
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  Speaker 1: movie has been taking. He's putting a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: in building a highway network. He's upgrading airports, he's improving ports,
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  Speaker 1: basically putting a lot of money into infrastructure, creating capacity
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  Speaker 1: so that that's easier movement of people and goods, which
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  Speaker 1: is necessity for any modern, fast growing economy. He's also
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  Speaker 1: galganized bureaucracy, he's empowered state governments, and he's also generated
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money from telecom auctions and auctioning mining assets. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these are all steps which don't immediately in results. Um uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the consumer is going through a pain, but
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  Speaker 1: these are building blocks which will sustain high levels of
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  Speaker 1: growth in the coming years. So, like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 1: it's like incremental steps. There's no big bang happening here,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe um, five to seven years down the line,
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  Speaker 1: these measures that times to Marie's taking today will lead
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  Speaker 1: to a sustained high growth. So that's the situation on ground.
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  Speaker 1: So any houses played out economically, could you give us
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  Speaker 1: some numbers here? Yeah, So you have about growth which
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  Speaker 1: is about seven percent. The outlook for the next year
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  Speaker 1: is also, uh, the growth would be anywhere between seven
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  Speaker 1: to eight percent. A lot actually depends on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the global external environment. So far, even though there's been
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous stream pain in the global economy, for India,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually worked to its advantage because India's a big
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  Speaker 1: energy inporting country and lower oil prices mean that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you you you spend less on oil and the input
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  Speaker 1: costs for for the manufacturing sector goes down. So in
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  Speaker 1: that sense, the growth outlook is quite positive in terms
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  Speaker 1: of seven percent pluss growth intension has been hovering around
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  Speaker 1: about five percent going forward. Governor argin Reserve Banks India
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  Speaker 1: governor Central Bank governor expects that it would be anywhere
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  Speaker 1: between about five and six percent. That's pretty manageable for
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  Speaker 1: a developing economy. Like India, which is going pretty fast,
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  Speaker 1: and and current account deficit. That's another major one for
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  Speaker 1: India because of the amount of imports that the economy
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  Speaker 1: takes and that's also been under control. And lastly, government
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  Speaker 1: spending in terms of fiscal deficit, you know, which which
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  Speaker 1: decides the ability for the government to borrow and also
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  Speaker 1: impacts bordering rates for the private sector. The fiscal deficit
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  Speaker 1: also has been under control and the government has been
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  Speaker 1: keeping a fairly tight cap on how it spends the money.
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  Speaker 1: So so far it's been the metrics in terms of
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  Speaker 1: actual numbers. All the macroeconomics indicators are suggesting that goth
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  Speaker 1: will be sustain and infliction will be under control. So
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  Speaker 1: now we're up to speed on the current scene in India.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back and talk about what's getting in the
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  Speaker 1: way of India's continued economic rise, a peaceful one, even
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  Speaker 1: for all investors. The biggest brand created in India, That's
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  Speaker 1: what Prime Minister Modi has called his campaign to make
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  Speaker 1: India the next global manufacturing hub. Billboards from Germany to
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  Speaker 1: California implore make in India, Ernie. How's that campaign going? So,
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  Speaker 1: simply put, it's a campaign called make in India. Wherein
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  Speaker 1: what time Mr Movies trying to do is to create
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  Speaker 1: a robust manufacturing sector so that there are enough jobs
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  Speaker 1: for the youth. Remember, India has got a huge demographic dividend,
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  Speaker 1: with nearly half of its population below the age of
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  Speaker 1: twenty five million workers joining the workforce every month, so
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  Speaker 1: um attracting factory jobs is key to Prime minister modes
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  Speaker 1: growth plans. He's pushing to boost the share of manufacturing
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  Speaker 1: in the economy to a quarter. It's about eighteen percent
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  Speaker 1: now and he plans to put about hundred million people
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  Speaker 1: to work in brand new factories by twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: So he's been going around asking global investors to set
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  Speaker 1: up factories, especially in focus areas like automobiles, pharmaceuticals, engineering products,
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  Speaker 1: electronics and defense manufacturing. India is one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: importer of defense equipment UM given its issues with the
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  Speaker 1: ables namely Pakistan in China. So pis movie has been
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  Speaker 1: trying to boost the manufacturing sector and it's about like
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of the economy is from manufacturing in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two and create jobs for a hundred billion people
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  Speaker 1: by in another seven years. So when I'm wondering what
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  Speaker 1: did the successes of this campaign and maybe the shortcomings
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  Speaker 1: of this campaign to say about Prime Minister Moodies India,
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  Speaker 1: Actually it's a it's a mixed support card. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it isn't still a very easy place to open an
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  Speaker 1: enterprise and run a business, but things are improving ever
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  Speaker 1: since times too more they took part in two thousands fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: He's made it improve the India's ranking in the World Bank.
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  Speaker 1: It's jumped for places. In the last report that had
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  Speaker 1: come out, it's about at higher and third position. That
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  Speaker 1: isn't very impressive for a country that wants to attract
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  Speaker 1: a law of investment and to sort of become the
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  Speaker 1: globe manufacturing hub. But things are improving, it's not happening
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  Speaker 1: fast enough. The government has a role in in most
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  Speaker 1: force sets of business. Things do get very bureaucratic, especially
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  Speaker 1: with business. There's a lot of paperwork to deal with
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  Speaker 1: while opening up business. But Mr movie has done some
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  Speaker 1: sort of self certification. You need less of PaperWorks if
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  Speaker 1: there were five forms needed, so now he's consolidated into
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  Speaker 1: one form. So he's he's putting the building blocks. Investment
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  Speaker 1: growth overall remains subdued, but the sentiment in terms of
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  Speaker 1: India is a difficult place to do business. UM is
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  Speaker 1: improving in terms um of the fact that foreign direct
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  Speaker 1: investment has increased about twenty seven percent since May two
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  Speaker 1: tho forty, even prying Mr Moody came to power and
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  Speaker 1: all this at a time when global demand was slowing.
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  Speaker 1: So things are improving. People are getting attracted, but he
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  Speaker 1: needs to possibly step on the gas in terms of
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  Speaker 1: make it an easier place to do business and any
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  Speaker 1: what are some of the institutional factors, some of the
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  Speaker 1: demographic factors that a single person in the term of
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  Speaker 1: a single government, let alone the halfway point in the
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  Speaker 1: first term, that anyone would struggle to address. Strength of unions,
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  Speaker 1: this robust sense of ownership that state governments have over
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  Speaker 1: their own affairs. Talk a little about that. Like you
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  Speaker 1: said in your opening remarks, you know, it is a
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  Speaker 1: difficult place to government. It's a noisy democracy, and it's
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  Speaker 1: got a federal structure, and it's got a state structure
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of things that are an exclusive domain
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  Speaker 1: of the state governments where where you know, the federal
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  Speaker 1: government doesn't have much of a role. For example, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I sort of foreign investor. You come here and you
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  Speaker 1: say that you want to set up this billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: cup plant. Now planets to movie can direct you to
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  Speaker 1: a set of states where which you would be interested,
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  Speaker 1: or you can or the foreign investor can decide. But
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, getting you know, what's the connection, getting land,
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  Speaker 1: getting all other clearances, the investor has to go through
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  Speaker 1: the state government. Now it depends on how open is
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  Speaker 1: that state government in terms of accepting some of the demands.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where the problem is. You know, Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Movie can be pretty open to business, can you know,
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  Speaker 1: welcome global investors. But beyond point, it is in the
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  Speaker 1: domain of the state government to make it an easier
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  Speaker 1: place to do business for the sort of global investor.
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  Speaker 1: So ultimately the car maker has to rely on compassionate
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  Speaker 1: state government to help sort out things. Primes to Movie
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  Speaker 1: can intervene. But unlike while he was the Chief minister
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  Speaker 1: in Gujab, where things were much more in his control,
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  Speaker 1: as a prime minister, there are certain handicaps that he
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  Speaker 1: has to deal with. But having said that, things are
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  Speaker 1: improving because you know, states are now competing for investments.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister a Movie is a shiny example of being
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  Speaker 1: a successful chief minister who's made a career at the
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  Speaker 1: national level because he could exhibit that you know, growth
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  Speaker 1: leads to growth necessarily is not doesn't make you unpopular.
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  Speaker 1: If you give growth to people, if they have higher
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  Speaker 1: disposable income, there's a greater chance of them voting your
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  Speaker 1: back in power. So the days of handouts and subsidies
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  Speaker 1: are over. Various chief ministers realizing that if you government
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  Speaker 1: of state well if you attracked for investors, people are
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  Speaker 1: bound to vote you back. They're not no longer looking
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  Speaker 1: for handouts, looking for a better life for their children,
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  Speaker 1: higher disposable income. So and I guess this brings us
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  Speaker 1: to the budget, which I heard is presented next week.
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  Speaker 1: When Dan originally told me that he wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about India's budget, I groaned a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because the budget it sounds like such a pedestrian thing.
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  Speaker 1: But tell us how big of a deal is a
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  Speaker 1: budget in India and why is it's such a big
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  Speaker 1: deal unlike other countries. You know, the did is a
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  Speaker 1: flagship event in India's economic policy making calendar. It is
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  Speaker 1: not just an account statement where the government comes and
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  Speaker 1: says that this is how much they earned last year
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  Speaker 1: and the samad spent here. It's more, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: chance for the government to present its economic vision for
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  Speaker 1: the for the coming year. It's also used as a
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  Speaker 1: launch pad for government programs, sometimes to initiate structural reforms
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  Speaker 1: and in some cases announced populous measure especially ahead of elections.
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  Speaker 1: Remember in when you when India embraced free market reforms,
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  Speaker 1: it started with the budget announcement. So historically, the budget
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  Speaker 1: has been used by prime ministers slash political parties slash
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  Speaker 1: leaders to showcase their best programs. So in that sense,
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  Speaker 1: that's the reason why it's sort of a big deal
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  Speaker 1: in India. There's a lot of pomp and ceremony surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the budget in Australia as well. I guess this must
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  Speaker 1: be a British legacy for both countries. Yeah, exactly. And
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  Speaker 1: does the Finance Minister come out of the Treasury building
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  Speaker 1: with a red suitcase and get into the car and
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  Speaker 1: drive to Parliament amidst the flashing of cameras. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: same thing happens here as well. Then, for all this
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  Speaker 1: and for all the issues that we've raised in this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the country must be doing something right. After all, growth
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  Speaker 1: was the highest in the G twenty last year. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot of things that the
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  Speaker 1: government has done and there are three parts to this,
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  Speaker 1: you know. The first one has been the dogged approach
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  Speaker 1: of both the government and the Central Bank to curb
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  Speaker 1: inflation and resist the temptation of opening po strings and spending.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's this steered clear of any kind of
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  Speaker 1: fiscal stimulus, even though growth was recovering. The single focus
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  Speaker 1: was essentially controlled inflation and fiscal deficit. Inflation has been
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  Speaker 1: brought to about five percent from world close to double
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  Speaker 1: digits two years back. The other thing, the second part
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  Speaker 1: of this entire development is that time Mr Moody has
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  Speaker 1: opened bank accounts to the poor. Um. I remember a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people India are living in the villages there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, outside the formal banking system. So he's brought
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  Speaker 1: them in one, he's brought them in two um to
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  Speaker 1: give them better access to financial products. And also it
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  Speaker 1: helps him transfer subsidy payments directly into their bank accounts,
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  Speaker 1: thereby plugging leakages, cutting out middle men, bringing down corruption.
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  Speaker 1: So that's been that's been the second big area where
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  Speaker 1: things have been done and things have gone right for
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  Speaker 1: Prime Mr Moody. The third is he's taken steps to
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  Speaker 1: attract foreign investment. He's capitalized on the positive sentiment ever
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  Speaker 1: since he took office after that when the global financial
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  Speaker 1: investors were really looking forward to parme mister Moody getting power,
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  Speaker 1: and he's capitalized on it. He's open certain sectors. He's
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  Speaker 1: opened foreign direct investment for defense manufacturing. He's increased the
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  Speaker 1: limit or raised the gap on foreign investment in insurance
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  Speaker 1: sofa on the financial sector side. Also, he's taken a
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  Speaker 1: couple of measures. So that's the reason why all of
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  Speaker 1: this has come together and you live the kind of
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  Speaker 1: results at a time when most of India's appears in
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  Speaker 1: the emerging economies backet have actually fallen off the radar.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Aki Tori isn't here today, but she would
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  Speaker 1: have loved this conversation. Heck, she may even end up
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