"This book charts the emergence of India onto the global economic stage. In the 1990s, Indian policymakers, politicians, and private sector actors were wary of the global world. By 2015 trade constituted half of India's GDP and India had become an integral part of the world order. Indian...

This paper examines the growing role of Indian lawyers in the transformation of Indian trade policy through the development of trade-related legal capacity. By trade-related legal capacity we mean, broadly, the ability of a country to use law to engage proactively in the development and defense...

Introduction / Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali -- Power of business in contemporary India -- Economic liberalization and the structural power of business in India / Kanta Murali -- India's new porous state : blurred boundaries and the evolving business-state relationship /...

The integrity of microfinance is in question. Unethical practices have led many to question its value. Yet, research and countless narratives suggest positive, though modest, effects. I argue that a false dichotomy of support or opposition for microfinance has emerged; a tendency that ignores the...