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India's economic revolution
In the 1990s India began to open up its largely state-controlled economy to foreign investment. Subramanian Swamy wrote the blueprint for reform and he's been speaking to Iknoor Kaur about what worked - and what didn't.
Photo: Subramanian Swamy (r) with Manmohan Singh. Credit: Getty Images.
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