Growth and Governance
Author: Sameer Kochhar
Pages: 272
ISSN: 978-81-929172-1-4
Language: English
Edition: First
Pub. Year: 2014
Nandan Nilekani earned his place as an iconic entrepreneur in India in the 1980s, having co-founded Infosys Limited in 1981. In the post-economic liberalisation era, he cemented his reputation as a pioneer in the corporate and information technology world, just as he helped launch Infosys into the big league of world’s IT-enabled services companies. He served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2007.
At the fag end of his career in Infosys, Nilakani wrote a best-selling book in 2009, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation. The book is widely acclaimed for heralding a new, idea-based approach to meet the present and future challenges facing India. It spelt out the theoretical framework for the provision of a unique identity for all its citizens as an important step towards putting, what Nilekani called, “human capital front and centre as the main driver of productivity and growth”.
Introduction Sameer Kochhar
- Markets, Big Business and Social Legitimacy - Montek S. Ahluwalia
- Two Issues in India’s Growth Story - C. Rangarajan
- Advocacy & Governance - Rohan Kochhar
- Vision for a Transparent, Efficient and Economically Inclusive Nation - Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- Challenges of Economic Governance - Rajiv B. Lall
- Two Steps Forward for Financial Inclusion - Rana Kapoor
- War Against Corruption: The Secret Weapon Called Aadhaar - Surjit S. Bhalla
- Corporate Governance Standards in India – Evolution and Challenges - Chitra Ramkrishna
- Can we have a New Urban Agenda? - M. Ramachandran
- The Security Implications of Aadhaar - Gursharan Dhanjal
- Management Rather than Civil Service: Opportunities for Radical Reform in India - Meghnad Desai
- Enabling and Sustaining a Stable Rules-Based Regime - Cyril Shroff
- Enhancing Food Security through Aadhaar - N.C. Saxena
- The Importance of Aadhaar - Janmejaya Sinha
- Governance Issues in the Financial Sector - S.S. Tarapore
- Risks in the Indian Financial Sector: The Role of Aadhaar - Laveesh Bhandari and Sumita Kale
- Closing the Gap Between Potential and Performance in ICT - Ashima Goyal
- Competition Policy: 2nd Big Wave of Economic Reforms - Pradeep S. Mehta
Sameer Kochhar, Chairman of SKOCH Group, a reforms historian. is a passionate advocate of social, financial and digital inclusion, In 1997, after spending 15 years in the corporate world, he decided to follow his inner calling and become a development thinker. Ever since, he single-handedly applied himself to the rigours of self-education, academic research and fiel tours. The SKOCH Group — which has a think tank, media and consultancy arm — was established as part of this endeavor- His expert opinion is sought by the government. In Kochhar's thinking, writings, and activities, his profound admiration for India's economic reforms — and in extension, those outstanding personalities who Strive to make these reforms more meaningful and broad-based — comes out clear and unambiguous. He is the author of highly acclaimed ModiNomics: Inclusive Economics Inclusive Growth (2014) and The Untold story of Indian Reforms (2016) in addition to fourteen other volumes.
