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Top Columbia economist set to run Modi's policy panel

Dr Arvind Panagariya is expected to modernise economic strategy after years of central planning
Tue, Jan 06, 2015 - 5:50 AM

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EMINENT free market economist Arvind Panagariya has been appointed to run Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Policy Commission, set up to modernise economic strategy after decades of Soviet-style central planning.

A top government source told Reuters on Monday that...

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