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POWER. REFORM. SCAMS. The 2G spectrum allocation scam struck a blow to the UPA-II government, and was perhaps India's biggest political scandal. The notional loss to the exchequer was a whopping Rs 1.76 trillion. Yet, it was no aberration. The 2G story is rooted in the very fabric of economic reforms in India--reforms that are essential for the growing economy. When Pradip Baijal took over as the third chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in 2003, the telecom sector was in serious crisis. But there was also resistance to the reforms he sought to implement. They were seen as both anti-establishment and pro-private business. Baijal fought for the reforms at great personal cost...
As the Kashmir dispute brings India and Pakistan ominously close to nuclear war this book provides a compelling account of the history and politics of these two great South Asian rivals. Like the Israel-Palestine struggle, the Indian-Pakistan rivalry is a legacy of history. The two countries went to war within months of becoming independent and, over the following half-century, they have fought three other wars and clashed at the United Nations and every other global forum. It is a complex conflict, over religion and territory with two diametrically opposed views of nationhood and national imagination. J.N. Dixit, former Foreign Secretary of India, and one of the world's leading authorities on the region, has written a balanced and very readable account of the most tempestuous and potentially dangerous flashpoint in international politics.
This is a courageous and an in-depth study of the working of the power sector in India. The book traces the history of the Enron project and places it in the larger context of power policy in India since liberalisation.
This book introduces a new theory of pathways to globalization and development, which identifies national configurations of sectoral models.
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focuses on India's airline, pharmaceutical, automobile, hospitality, food, and telecommunications industries to create a well-rounded profile of the evolving Indian market. An essay on each business sector describes its market structure, the current state of the industry, the main players, key economic forces, and selected business strategies, analyzing how the sector might develop over the next five to ten years against the backdrop of the deeper economic and demographic transitions that are taking place in India. In sum, this anthology enumerates the challenges and opportunities for companies---both domestic and multinational---doing business in India today. --Book Jacket.