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Telephones,
86
,
87
,
95
.
See also
Cell phones
Tendulkar, Suresh,
40
Ten Point Program,
11
Tesco,
180
Textiles,
103
Thailand,
19
Times of India
,
7
Tobacco,
155
Tooley, James,
194â195
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trade liberalization,
42â44
,
49
,
90
,
121
,
143
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trade to GDP ratio,
31
Trade Unions Act (1926),
111
,
123â124
Tripura,
163
Twain, Mark,
51
2G-spectrum scam,
87
Unemployment,
15
.
See also
Employment
:
lay-offs/retrenchments
United Kingdom.
See
Great Britain
United Nations,
60
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Development Program (UNDP),
12
,
68
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Population Division,
137â138
United Progressive Alliance (UPA),
97
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130
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132
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143
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203
United States,
65
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85
,
90
,
103
,
104
,
117
,
202
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anti-trust legislation in,
52â53
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Gilded Age in,
50â55
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Homestead Strike of 1892,
52
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illegal immigrants in,
149â150
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Indian graduate students in,
140
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IndoâUS nuclear cooperation deal,
206
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infrastructure in,
129
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Supreme Court,
125
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Works Projects Administration (WPA) in,
158
Universities,
135â139
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foreign universities,
139â141
University Grants Commission (UGC),
136â137
UPA.
See
United Progressive Alliance
Urbanization,
101
,
102
,
132â133
Urban Land Ceilings Act of 1976,
133
Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing,
106
,
110
Uttarakhand,
126
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari,
14
,
95
,
101
,
204
Varshney, Ashutosh,
50
Voting rights,
53
Wadhwa, Deepika,
103
Wages/salaries,
23
,
46â47
,
50
,
51
,
97
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99
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112
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113
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121
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138
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149â150
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157â158
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(table),
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164
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181
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207
Warner, Charles Dudley,
51
Water,
16
,
67
,
112
,
133
,
149
,
158
,
160
,
163
,
168
,
174
,
178
Weddings,
55
Welfare state,
182
WHO.
See
World Health Organization
Women,
75
     Â
body mass index of,
67
,
168
     Â
female literacy,
76
     Â
maternal mortality,
16
,
58
,
59
(fig.),
60
(table),
60
,
64â65
,
68
,
177
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maternity care,
183
     Â
widows,
161
     Â
in workforce,
112
,
117
,
158
,
159
(table)
Workmen's Compensation Act (1923),
113
World Bank,
34â35
,
36â37
,
89
,
90â91
,
169
World Health Organization (WHO),
58
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
169
World Trade Organization,
81
Wright, Stephen,
31
Yadav, R. S.,
85â86
Young Turks,
11
Jagdish Bhagwati
is university professor of economics at Columbia, and a longtime fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States. He has combined scientific scholarship with a substantial public policy presence through writings in leading media worldwide and much-acclaimed books aimed at the general public. He has received many prestigious prizes and several honorary degrees. Widely recognized as the intellectual pioneer of India's reforms, he has also received the Padma Vibhushan.
JON ROEMER, USED BY PERMISSION OF COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL
Arvind Panagariya
is professor of economics and Indian political economy at Columbia University, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a past chief economist of the Asian Development Bank. A leading trade theorist of his generation, Panagariya has written prolifically on global trade policy issues and economic reforms in India. Author of a dozen books, his technical papers have been published in the leading journals, including the
American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics
, and
Review of Economic Studies
while his policy papers have appeared in
Foreign Affairs
and
Foreign Policy
. Panagariya writes an influential monthly column in the
Times of India
and has been honored with the Padma Bhushan.
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