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Why aren't more economists coming back to put down roots in this country?

Many respected economists such as Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who published a memoir this week, left plum jobs in the West to return to India and work in government. Nearly three decades after economic reforms, the question is: Why aren’t more people like him coming back to put down roots in this country? And more worryingly, though India has always had economic refugees travelling West, why are well-placed industrialists leaving the country now? Does India’s unattractive political economy have something to do with this exodus, asks T N Ninan here.

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