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Specially marked towels, height-adjustable chairs to rise above the rest, a tsunami of permissions and an unrelenting battle to improve punctuality.
These are some of the features about India s bureaucracy that a leading academic and former chief economic adviser to the government found during a three-year-long tenure.
Kaushik Basu, who later became World Bank chief economist, took leave from his position as a professor at Cornell University in the US to join the federal government in 2009, at the invitation of then-prime minister Manmohan Singh.
His newly published memoir, Policymaker s Journal (Simon & Schuster), brims with light-hearted and revealing anecdotes about how India s gargantuan bureaucracy operates.
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Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said the brighter economic prospect was attributable to rising global demand, increased public and private sector spending, as well as continued policy support.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economy is now on the path to recovery and is projected to chart better growth this year, says Senior Minister cum International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali.
He said the brighter economic prospect was attributable to rising global demand, increased public and private sector spending, as well as continued policy support. This (brighter prospect) will also be reflected in the recovery in labour market conditions and higher production in the manufacturing sector, particularly in the electrical and electronics (E&E), and the oil and gas facilities, ” he said in a keynote address at the Malaysian Economic Summit 2021 webinar today.