Indias economy should not lapse into permit raj

April 23, 2020 14:33

At this crossroads, missteps can change nation's trajectory for decades to come. We cannot have the poor, the labourers and the migrants bear the brunt of the effort to contain the spread of the virus, and nor do we want to weaken the foundations of the economy so much that we emerge from the pandemic onto an economic wasteland, writes economist Kaushik Basu. Read the column here.

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