Economic freedom: Gujarat is No 1, Bihar at bottom

Move over Tamil Nadu, Gujarat is here. In what Chief Minister Narendra Modi will perhaps claim as yet another endorsement of the ‘Gujarat model’ of development, the state has moved to the top of an economic freedom of states index for 2012, dislodging Tamil Nadu, which held the place in 2005 and 2009. Bihar’s Nitish Kumar, whose politics and governance style are seen as diametrically opposite to that of Modi, has reason to worry. His state remains at the bottom of the list for three years in a row...

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