Modi at WEF: India hits hard at protectionism but is the blow enough?

Senior trade expert Biswajit Dhar points out the deeper issues Modi didn't talk about

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday did not address concerns of income equality and growing systematic collapse of the rules-based trade mechanism itself while training his guns on detractors of globalisation at the World Economic Forums' ongoing annual conference in Davos, Switzerland.

"While the PM was right in pointing out the severe pressure under which globalisation is coming in, he should have pointed out how the current model is not an equitable one and even squeezes out smaller players from India itself." senior trade expert and academician Biswajit Dhar said. Conversing with Business Standard, he said that even if globalisation