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Radical Government Plan to Reboot India

Ambitious plans face continuing farmer protest

Feb 01, 2021
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By: John Elliott

India’s annual budget has attempted to re-boot the country’s Covid-hit economy with plans that double spending on healthcare, sell off most government-owned businesses, raise foreign direct investment limits in the country’s large insurance market and accelerate infrastructure development.

Beset with continuing mass protests by tens of th…

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