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.

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Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits.

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Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.

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A trilateral initiative by the U.S., China, and India in the Gulf, aimed at facilitating a resolution of historic problems in the region, would benefit global growth and stability.

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The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.

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When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.

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While ideological blinkers blind one to change that one does not wish to see, statistics and opinion surveys, too, have their limitations in a complex polity like India.

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Obama's starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh's starting point, and Obama's rise was not as sharp.

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For all the criticism I've been showered with - people calling me a betrayer, a backstabber - frankly, the only criticism I have of Manmohan Singh is that he weakened the office of the prime minister, and he brought down the dignity of the office.

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In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

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Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.

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I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.

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A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

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When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.

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I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of UPA-1 did the damage when the economy slowed down, but government spending could not.

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In some ways, Mr. Modi's foreign policy is a continuation of Dr. Manmohan Singh's, and in some ways, it could be that Mr. Modi was repossessing all the non Nehru-Gandhi leaders of the Congress.

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Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990.

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The reason a Congress-led coalition didn't happen in 1990 was because it is entirely possible that Rajiv Gandhi himself wasn't sure how the Congress party would evolve in that context.

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Prime ministers with full majority have behaved differently from each other. Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader who ruled by consensus while Indira Gandhi was considered more unilateral in her approach.

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I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.

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I think many people grow on the job.

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