Few disagree with the view that the 21st century will witness the return of Asia to the centrestage of global economic activity. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
For too long have many of us in India imagined a future in which the country would rise, leaving the rest of the subcontinent behind. This is neither possible nor warranted. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
The G-20,with all its inadequacies, is a mixed group of the world’s rising and risen powers. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of their liking at the top. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated by member governments, its policies have increasingly become sensitive to civil society pressure and NGO agendas. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
If the World Bank does not alter its shareholding structure to reflect the shifts in global distribution of income and economic power, its role may get marginalised as regional institutions fill the vacuum. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
The world may view India more benignly, but it does more business with China. It courts China; it needs China. Look at the genuflecting Europeans and the fork-tongued Americans! Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
Few in Europe imagined the incompetence and dishonesty of Greek economic managers would bring the entire European project into question. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The ‘idea of Europe,’ much like the ‘idea of India’ was the construction of such continental leaders. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
