Financial reforms versus gravy train subsidy? Mismanage and then sell bonds, raise rates on freight etc?
Singh was a protege of harold laski back in the day if I remember correctly - and that would certainly have an impact on him, as would working in the imf / world bank scene and as a practicing economist rather than a short term (next election) focused politician be more aware of the micro and macro economic aspects of any decision "Kotow to the usa", "neo capitalist", "anti poor" etc rhetoric doesn't help the situation and in fact drives more and more extreme proposals forward -- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:04:16 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] aqvavit On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM, ashok _ <[email protected]> wrote: > yeah i think cheney was the CEO of halliburton...and i remember there > was a case by the nigerian govt against halliburton for the period of > his tenure of his CEO. MMS and montek were consultants and bureaucrats > at the world bank .... i think you are comparing oil and water in > terms of designations and what it implies. > The revolving door syndrome is all is being discussed, I don't think it's useful to deal with specific examples which are only by way of illustration. Singh's LSE education possibly has as much effect on him for that matter. The point being the Singh enterprise is the best we have at the moment IMO in terms of political leadership and yet in my opinion, it shows naive distrust of big business and acceptance of the world status quo. Numerous times in the two terms, the Singh enterprise (UPA/NDA) has sought to push policies that are WTO, IMF friendly that have been met with strong rejection from the people. This requires discussion at the national level; which as far as I know isn't happening.
