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India needs to shift from pro-crony to pro-business policies: CEA

24 Feb 2020 Evaluate

Expressing need to shift from pro-crony to pro-business policies, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Krishnamurthy Subramanian stated that India has some distance to go in terms of enabling that fully. He added that it will be pro-business policies that will enable the ‘invisible hands of the market’ and also take the country to the $5-trillion gross domestic product (GDP) goal. He said pro-business policies are those that enable fair competition in the country. On the other hand, pro-crony policies just help incumbents and that is something that we have to stay away from in enabling the invisible hands of the market.’

Subramanian said after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG’s) report on telecom spectrum allocations came out in 2011, investor returns from connected companies, a euphemism for crony firms, had been very low as compared to the broader indices. He further said the problem with cronyism is that it is not a better business model, and added that one should always aim for ‘creative destruction’ where incumbents were challenged. He also made a strong case for not depending only on recent work in economics to make policy choices and neglecting age-old texts like the Arthashastra.

Pointing out to the recent Economic Survey, he said over 40 million well-paying jobs could be created in the country by 2025 by focusing on assembling for the world, and the same could go up to 80 million by 2030. About the Budget’s thrust on imposing tariffs on certain sectors and how it has been criticised as being protectionist by some, Subramanian said ‘we needed to make a distinction between duties that are imposed on finished products against those on raw materials or intermediate goods, which hurt exports.’

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