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Growth Is Good
by Foundation for Economic Development
At Foundation for Economic Development (FED), we believe the evidence clearly shows that economic, GDP-measured growth is critical to improving everyone's standard of living; that it is the single-biggest determinant of human development outcomes such as improved health, education, and employment. Growth is good! It enables everything we cherish - employment, equity and even gender equality! This podcast features insightful conversations with leaders from industry and academia, who share their different perspectives on India's economic growth trajectory, and what we must do to grow further.
Episodes
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What Taiwan can Teach India About Building World-Class Firms | Chang-Tai Hsieh | Ep 30 | Growth is Good
Why do some industrial policies produce companies like TSMC, while others end up wasting public money? And why do successful Indian firms often fail to grow as large as they should? In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul Ahluwalia speaks with Professor Chang-Tai Hsieh of the University of…
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India's Districts Will Drive the Next Decade of Growth | ft. Shashank Mani | Ep 29 | Growth is Good
In this episode of Growth is Good, Piyush Doshi sits down with Shashank Mani, Member of Parliament from Deoria and founder of Jagriti Yatra, to explore how economic growth can be built from India’s districts.They discuss why India’s next growth engines may lie beyond its largest cities, how local...
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From Deep Science to Deep Tech: How Research Drives Growth ft. Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman | Growth is Good | Ep 28
In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul Ahluwalia sits down with Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CEO of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation, to unpack the relationship between science, technology, innovation and economic growth.They discuss why technology by itself does not create growth, how...
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Innovation, Export Discipline & Why India Must Never Waste a Crisis | Prachi Mishra | Ep 27
What does it actually take for India to become a high-income economy?In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul sits down with Prachi Mishra — one of India's most respected economists, with stints at the IMF, Goldman Sachs, and the RBI. She now leads the Isaac Center for Public Policy at Ashoka...
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Inside India’s Growth Strategy With the Chief Economic Advisor | Growth is Good | Ep 26
In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul sits down with Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran — India's Chief Economic Advisor — for a candid, wide-ranging conversation on what it will really take for India to grow.From the "missing middle" in India's manufacturing to why 30-year-old policy prescriptions are...
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Growth Is Discovery, Not Design — Why Firms Build Economies Ft. Ajay Shah | Growth is Good | Ep 25
Ajay Shah is back! And this time, he's going granular.In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul Ahluwalia and Ajay Shah break down why firms — not policies, not savings rates, not grand macroeconomic plans — are the true unit of economic growth. GDP is just the sum of value added by every firm in...
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How a Left Leaning Young Man Became One of India's Leading Reformers | Ep 24 | Dr Rakesh Mohan
In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul Ahluwalia speaks with Dr. Rakesh Mohan — former Deputy Governor of the RBI, former Executive Director at the IMF, and one of the key policy minds around India’s 1991 reforms. This is a grounded, insider account of how reforms actually happen — and why they...
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Why Enforcing a Contract Is So Hard in India Ft. Anand Kumar| Ep 23 | Growth is Good
In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul Ahluwalia is joined by Anand Prasad, co-founder of Trilegal, for a wide-ranging conversation on India’s legal system, economic growth, and the incentives that quietly shape how business actually works.Anand traces his journey from becoming a lawyer just...
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Why India Still Needs to Defend Freedom | Amit Varma & Mohit Satyanand | Ep 22 | Growth is Good
What did it really mean to start a business under the Licence Raj? Why is socialism back as a “feel-good” word? And why do Amit Varma and Mohit Satyanand worry that we’re drifting away from the spirit of 1991, even as India’s young entrepreneurs give them hope?In this episode of Growth is Good,...
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India’s Growth Leap: Insights from EAC-PM Member Shamika Ravi | Ep 21 | Growth is Good
What really pulled 302 million Indians out of poverty?In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul Ahluwalia sits down with Dr Shamika Ravi, Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM), to unpack what the latest data actually says about poverty, growth, inequality and jobs in...
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Creating 100,000 Jobs & Becoming One of the Largest Apparel Exporters | Ep 20 | Growth is Good
Shahi Exports, India’s largest apparel exporter, started in 1974 with one sewing machine. Today, it employs over 100,000 workers across 50+ factories, with women making up nearly 70% of its workforce. In this episode of Growth is Good, we explore Shahi’s remarkable rise, its impact on women’s...
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How India’s IT Boom Took Off and Why Tax Reform Still Lags | Ep 19 | Growth is Good
Entrepreneur and thinker Jerry Rao joins Growth is Good to reflect on India’s reform story — from the unlikely rise of the software and BPO industries to why simplifying taxes and fixing administration are key to sustaining growth.Chapters:0:00 – 1:51 | Promo1:52 – 7:55 | Teachers’ unions…
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What India Learned (and Missed) from 30 Years of Reform | Ep 18 | Growth is Good
In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul speaks with Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission and a central figure in India’s reform journey. They discuss how reforms were debated and designed inside government, why some changes stuck while others stalled, and…
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How Nehru Shaped and Narasimha Rao Transformed the Economy | Ep 17 | Arvind Panagariya
In this episode of Growth is Good, Arvind Panagariya returns to unpack his latest book, The Nehru Development Model—a sweeping intellectual and historical account of how India embraced socialism post-independence and why it stayed stuck there for decades.We dive deep into how Jawaharlal Nehru’s...
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From 'Incredible India' to G20: Amitabh Kant on Reform, Enterprise & Policy | Ep 16 | Growth is Good
What drives India’s biggest reforms? How did campaigns like Incredible India and Startup India come to life? And what really goes on inside the engine room of government?When we talk about economic reform in India, we often think of big slogans or bureaucratic hurdles. But few people have…
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India's Infrastructure: What's Built, What's Broken Ft. Vinayak Chatterjee | Ep 15 | Growth is Good
When we talk about infrastructure in India, it’s usually in the context of potholes, delayed metro lines, or power outages. But our guest this week, Vinayak Chatterjee, brings a far deeper and more nuanced lens to the discussion. Vinayak walks us through the sector’s remarkable journey—from the...
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India’s Missed Reforms: Shruti Rajagopalan on What Went Wrong After 1991 | Ep 14 | Growth Is Good
Our popular discourse is obsessed with what should or should not be taught in schools. This mostly relates to history-medieval, and even ancient Indian history. Our guest for this episode has her own lament in this regard, though the history she's talking about is a lot more modern, hence…
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The Hidden Barriers Stopping India’s Entrepreneurs, ft. Akshay Jaitly | Ep 13 | Growth Is Good
We’ve talked a lot in this podcast about what plagues India’s businesses. ‘Regulatory cholesterol’ is a term that comes up repeatedly. Our guest for this episode is a corporate lawyer who has helped his clients navigate the minefield that is entrepreneurship. Akshay Jaitly, Founding Partner at...
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Labour, Industry & Growth: A Trade Unionist On Breaking the Stalemate | Ep 12 | Growth Is Good
Every episode of Growth Is Good has delved into why we must reform India’s economic policies to unlock our manufacturing potential. Labour remains a critical aspect where reforms are needed, often attempted, but found difficult to implement. The politicised nature of the question has given birth…
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Manish Sabharwal On India's Regulatory Cholesterol | Ep 11 | Growth Is Good
Our guest for this episode is an employer who went beyond merely railing about the excessive compliances that Indian businesses must put up with. Manish Sabharwal, Vice-Chairman at TeamLease RegTech, remembers the number by heart – 26,134 – the number of different reasons an Indian employer can…
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Tarun Bajaj On Making Economic Reforms Politically Salient | Ep 10 | Growth is Good
Our guest for this episode, Tarun Bajaj, first stepped onto the field as an IAS Officer in 1988, just as India was about to shed its socialist baggage. While the country navigated the shift from scarcity to relative abundance, he had a ringside view (and several performing roles) of how the...
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Lant Pritchett On Growth, Development & Income Inequality | Ep 9 | Growth Is Good
Our guest for this episode of FED Dialogues is one of the strongest proponents of countries striving for GDP growth as a means of improving human lives at scale. American economist Lant Pritchett's arguments for growing the size of the pie are incisive and empirically driven, based on his work at...
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Ajay Shah On 4 Pillars Of Industrial Policy, And Why They're All Bad | Ep 8 | Growth Is Good
Ajay Shah, economist extraordinaire and author of the finest primer on public policy in India - 'In Service of the Republic' - believes everything is everything! It's more than just the 'catchy' name of his insightful podcast with Amit Varma. Ajay explained when he joined us for our own humble...
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Ashish Dhawan On 'Equity' In Philanthropy | Ep 7 | Growth Is Good
Our guest for this episode of FED Dialogues, a private equity investor turned philanthropist, has a neat analogy for how he looks at philanthropy. He's done the ‘debt’ part of his philanthropy - set up a world-class university where he can see the impact he's creating. He's now looking at more...
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Karthik Muralidharan Lays Out India's Roadmap for Effective Governance | Ep 6 | Growth Is Good
Our guest for this episode has just authored one of the most highly acclaimed books on India - “Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap For Effective Governance”. In this fascinating one hour conversation, Karthik gives us an introduction to the key messages of his book - the idea...
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Dr Naushad Forbes On Fulfilling India’s Economic Promise | Ep 5 | Growth Is Good
Growing up in a business household, Naushad Forbes read and heard about the gulf in living standards that separated countries in the league of South Korea, from India. That gulf, which was non-existent at one point in time - India's per capita GDP was the same as South Korea's in 1960 and…
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Ravi Venkatesan On The Missing Entrepreneurial Drive In India's MSMEs | Ep 4 | Growth Is Good
From classrooms to political rallies to multilateral summits, entrepreneurship is the buzzword being peppered liberally everywhere, and for good reason. It’s the fulcrum of innovation, employment and wealth creation. And nothing breeds success like success! It takes a few to succeed, for a…
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Gurcharan Das On 'Selling' Reforms; India Craving An Industrial Revolution | Ep 3 | Growth Is Good
It’s been over 30 years since India liberalised its economy. If it didn’t sink in then, it’s crystal clear today that 1991 was an epochal moment for modern India, the country we were and what we aspire to become. Our guest for this episode of FED Dialogues, acclaimed author and former Chief...
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Banmali Agrawala On India's Electronics Manufacturing Opportunity | Ep 2 | Growth Is Good
India is stepping up its ambitions of gaining global market share in labour-intensive manufacturing. The success we have seen in electronics and smartphone assembly with the production-linked incentive or PLI scheme suggests that electronics manufacturing services or EMS can be the perfect...
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Dr. Arvind Panagariya On Perspectives On India's Economic Growth | Ep 1 | Growth Is Good
Evidence tells us, unequivocally, that sustained economic growth is the best bet for poverty alleviation. But scepticism about growth remains embedded in our discourse. In this conversation with one of India’s most-renowned economists, first Vice-Chair of the NITI Aayog and Chair of the 16th...
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At Foundation for Economic Development (FED), we believe the evidence clearly shows that economic, GDP-measured growth is critical to improving everyone's standard of living; that it is the single-biggest determinant of human development outcomes such as improved health, education, and employment. Growth is good! It enables everything we cherish - employment, equity and even gender equality! This podcast features insightful conversations with leaders from industry and academia, who share their different perspectives on India's economic growth trajectory, and what we must do to grow further.
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