Resistance to Economic Reform in India
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In spite of the hype in the international media about India’s global integration, economic reform there has been rather halting and hesitant. Cheerleaders of reform among corporate tycoons and financial columnists are often not aware how unpopular reform is, rightly or wrongly, among the general public in India. In the National Election Survey 2004 more than twothirds of about 23000 sample respondents (who had any opinion on the subject) say that the reforms benefit only the rich or none at all. Politicians are, of course, too savvy not to notice this. Even any of the ruling parties over the last decade which supported reforms played them down during election time. A party that initiates some reforms is quick to oppose them when out of power.
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