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Manmohan Singh responds to critics with symbolic reforms

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Sep 18, 2012
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Stung by increasingly sharp criticism at home and abroad, the Indian government lat last week announced a raft of foreign direct investment reforms in supermarkets, airlines and other areas that ended three years of policy inertia. This followed a highly controversial decision to cut fuel subsidies, triggering a 12 percent increase in diesel retail pric…

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