India needs to fight for global trade liberalisation: Martin Wolf

Says May expected to lose Brexit deal, but may survive confidence vote

As the word economic paradigm changes and protectionist voices become louder, a piece of advise for India to pitch for the liberalised world came from Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator with the Financial Times, London.

As British Parliament debates Brexit deal, he said it is expected that prime minister Theresa May will lose the vote, but he expected that she will survive the confidence vote.  

Delivering the C D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture, organised by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), Wolf said since the biggest issue for India is global trade, maintaining an open world economy is a vital interest