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The United States and India can work together.

Manmohan Singh

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.
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I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.
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If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.
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Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
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We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.
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Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.
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When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.
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Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.
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If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.
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No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.
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I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.
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Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.
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As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
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I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.
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I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.
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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.
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