Today my guest is Rohit Lamba (https://www.rohitlamba.com/) , an assistant professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University and a visiting assistant professor of economics at New York University Abu Dhabi. We spoke about his recent book Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future (https://www.penguin.co.in/newsroom/ec...) which he has coauthored with Raghuram Rajan.


We spoke about their argument to shift the focus from industrial and trade policy towards a services and education policy, how India can and should decentralize, if India can scale education and health, India’s growth rate numbers, and much more. 


Recorded April 19th, 2024.


Read a full transcript (https://www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia...) enhanced with helpful links.


Timestamps


(00:00:00) Intro


(00:05:21) Zooming into Indian States


(00:20:25) Why not Decentralization?


(00:26:28) Scaling Education


(00:51:14) Educating the Global South


(00:53:22) Picking Winners and Losers


(01:10:22) India's Growth Rate


(01:18:44) Outro


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