 "Economic agenda for Haryana's new govt")
Haryana has done well … but the new government has to work hard on some dimensions. Then there is the phenomenon of multi-plants. And lessons from a big media merger. Today’s reading
Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva lay out what the new government in Haryana should do. The focus should be on the state as a whole and the two key economic areas --- Gurugram and Faridabad.
Abhishek Anand, Arvind Subramanian, & Naveen Thomas: One of the most intriguing and relatively undocumented developments of the last 20 years has been “multi-plants”, whereby a single firm operates not one but multiple production facilities within a state. Multi-plants are less efficient, which affects India’s manufacturing competitiveness.
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar looks at the potential of the Reliance-Disney merger.
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