Economic Reforms 1991

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When the minority government of Narasimha Rao was formed on June 21, 1991 after the general elections, very few expected major initiatives

The term was first used by the late economist Raj Krishna in 1978 to refer to the low rate of economic growth in the pre-liberalisation era

If India is now considered having the potential to be a leading economy, the 1991 reforms made it possible.

The real issue is that the government and the bureaucracy, unlike in 1991, aren't set up to develop a consensus behind liberalizing reforms

Major economic reforms in the early 1990s changed the face of the Indian economy

The pace of changes in the first 100 days of a minority govt remains unparalleled till today

The three governments of that decade - the Congress, the United Front, and the National Democratic Alliance - went along because whatever the RBI did had no impact on votes

The promises of netas and babus and new laws, however well-meaning, mean little. What matters is implementation on the ground