India's neo-illiberalism

Five years ago, in the 'Doing Business 2007' report, India came 134th out of 175 countries. Clearly the improvement since then is very minimal. This is not liberalism or neo-liberalism. Rather it is neo-illiberalism, in which you remove a few of a hundred hurdles and claim you have done economic reform. The hundreds of remaining hurdles are imposed in the supposed public interest, but actually used for kickbacks and patronage networks.

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