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HARDtalk: Palaniappan Chidambaram - Finance Minister, India

27/01/2014

Palaniappan Chidambaram - Finance Minister, India

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Palaniappan Chidambaram - Finance Minister, India

Has India squandered an opportunity to fundamentally reform itself for the 21st century?

In Delhi, Stephen Sackur asks India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, whether India has squandered an opportunity to fundamentally reform itself for the 21st century.

In a special edition of HARDtalk recorded in Delhi, Stephen Sackur speaks to India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram - one of the most influential and long serving members of the Congress Party dominated government. India has enjoyed a decade of unprecedented economic growth, with signs of a new era of wealth and consumerism visible in every major city. But has this vast country squandered an opportunity to fundamentally reform itself for the 21st century?

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