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HT interview: ‘India’s economic miracle made it key in global reforms,’ says Larry summers

Lawrence Summers forecasts India's economy could grow sixfold by 2047, emphasizing its role in global development and climate finance reform.

Updated on: Oct 1, 2024, 00:21:09 IST
By Roshan Kishore
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Lawrence Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University, former chief economist of the World Bank, adviser to two US Presidents and a co-convener of the independent expert group on reforming the multilateral development banks under India’s G20 presidency, spoke to HT on Monday over a broad range of issues. Summers believes that Indian economy could become six times its current size by 2047; that the advanced world and multilateral system needs to do much

Lawrence H Summers (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)
Lawrence H Summers (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)
 
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Roshan Kishore

Roshan Kishore is the Data and Political Economy Editor at Hindustan Times. He heads the newsroom's data journalism team, which produces Number Theory, a daily data-driven feature for the print edition and the HT app. Number Theory uses data analysis and story-telling based on it to add value to the newsroom’s daily coverage by putting stories in a larger context on a range of issues, including politics, macroeconomy, markets, global affairs and climate. Under his leadership HT’s data journalism work has established itself as a niche product in Indian journalism and pushed the boundaries of marrying academic rigour with news sense and speed. Along with writing and editing data stories, he has also been writing a weekly political economy column called Terms of Trade for HT Premium. A trained economist with an MPhil degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kishore has also been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Along with his journalistic work, his writings have also appeared in journals such as the Economic and Political Weekly and working papers for CASI and UNESCAP.

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