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Powered by rapid economic growth arising from significant internal reforms in the 1990s, India has developed into an economic force to be reckoned with over the past twenty years. As such, it is a land of contradictions: rapid economic growth co-exists with widespread poverty;1 a world-class information technology sector, with desperate farmers often seeing no outlet but suicide; a political system which holds free and fair elections involving over a billion people but remains regularly rocked by corruption and scandal, as in the telecom disaster of 2010–2011.
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© 2013 Laura Carsten Mahrenbach
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Mahrenbach, L.C. (2013). India: Context and Trade Liberalization. In: The Trade Policy of Emerging Powers. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137303714_4
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