Rogue elephant : harnessing the power of India's unruly democracy /

Five years ago, India was an emerging world power being courted by the world's most powerful political and business leaders, an upbeat story of unparalleled economic growth. Since then, it has failed to account for the human capital at the heart of its effort to modernize: more than one billion...

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Main Author: Denyer, Simon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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