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VARIOUS STATES OF THE NATION

Seventy-five years after India became an independent nation, where do we stand and what does our medium-term future hold? That is a question two recent books by two eminent economists seek to answer. Ashoka Mody, who served as senior economist in IMF and World Bank and is currently Charles and Marie Robertson visiting professor in international economic policy at Princeton’s School of Public and International

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