contemporary liberal
Manmohan Singh
1932–2024
Also known as: Dr. Manmohan Singh
How Manmohan Singh is discussed in this archive
Referenced in 14 other works , including D R Pendse on the 1991 Crisis , The Challenges leading to the Forest Rights Act, 2006 , and Laying The Foundations For An Economic Miracle .
In The Challenges for Liberal Grassroots Movements : Narayan singles out Manmohan Singh for honestly implementing the 1991 reforms, even if only partially.
In The Challenges leading to the Forest Rights Act, 2006 : Named as the Prime Minister who proposed a statutory solution and shifted the nodal ministry to Tribal Affairs.
In D R Pendse on Doing Business in India before 1991 Reforms : Credited by name as the architect of the 1991 budget that repealed the control-era statutes Pendse describes.
In D R Pendse on the 1991 Crisis : Pendse extensively assesses Manmohan Singh's role in the 1991 reforms, his ideological orientation, and personal friendship.
In An Evaluation of Common Minimum Programme : Bhandare and Mukhopadhyay benchmark the coalition's Common Minimum Programme against Manmohan Singh's ten-point interim budget objectives of 1996-97, using Singh's reform agenda as the comparator for evaluating the CMP's credibility.
Mentioned in (21)
Primary works (15)
- The Challenges for Liberal Grassroots Movements · 2020
- "we must compliment Mr. and Dr. Manmohan Singh for doing it honestly to the limited extent they attempted it" · Praising Singh's execution of the 1991 liberalization.
- The Challenges leading to the Forest Rights Act, 2006 · 2020
- "We met the prime minister, at that time was Manmohan Singh, and Manmohan Singh suggested that we should have a statute." · Singh's role in proposing the legislative path.
- "Manmohan Singh himself suggested that there should be a statute, and the nodal agency should not be the Environment and Forest Ministry, but it should be the Tribal Ministry." · Singh's specific procedural intervention shaping the FRA.
- D R Pendse on Doing Business in India before 1991 Reforms · 2016
- "all the laws were repealed by Manmohan Singh first budget 1991. Reforms, we call it." · Naming Singh as the reformer who dismantled the License Raj.
- D R Pendse on the 1991 Crisis · 2016
- "have great respect for Doctor Manmohan Singh. He is a personal — he used to be a personal friend of mine." · Personal relationship
- "He was not, in my opinion, he was not a reformer. He was ideologically. He was left of centre." · Pendse's critical assessment
- Freedom First · 2001
- Freedom First · 1998
- An Evaluation of Common Minimum Programme · 1996
- "they note that it broadly tracks the famous 10-point medium-term objectives of Dr. Manmohan Singh's interim 1996-97 budget" · opening analysis; Singh's budget serves as the reform benchmark against which the CMP is judged as inadequate
- Economic Infirmities Will Continue Under the Union Budget 1996-97 · 1996
- "Manmohan Singh's Rs. 5,000 crore deficit projection for 1995-96 overshot by 50% to Rs. 7,600 crore" · Ranina's evidence that fiscal deficit targets are routinely underestimated
- Freedom First · 1995
- Union Budget 1995-96: Cementing the Reform Process · 1995
- A Historic Budget · 1994
- "a detailed commentary on Dr. Manmohan Singh's fourth Union Budget (1994-95)" · Singh's budget is the document the entire pamphlet analyses
- Freedom First · 1994
- Freedom First · 1993
- FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS IN INDIA · n.d.
- "situating the move within Finance Minister Manmohan Singh's 1992-93 budget pledge to admit reputable foreign investors such as pension funds" · Singh's budget pledge identified as the policy origin of India's FII regime
- Organised Crime and Economic Development in India · n.d.
Excerpts (6)
- Is This The Freedom We Fought For?
- "Mr. Manmohan Singh is the real villain of the piece, on account of whom we have landed ourselves into problems of growing poverty, unemployment, overpopulation" · Manmohan Singh is the specific minister whose liberalisation policies the speaker defends against charges of causing poverty and unemployment
- Laying The Foundations For An Economic Miracle
- "Dr Manmohan Singh presents his third successive Budget within twenty months. Certainly, Dr Singh has performed a miraculous feat of cutting indirect taxes by Rs. 4,522 crores" · central praise of the Finance Minister whose budget is the subject of the speech
- "the last three Budgets of Dr Manmohan Singh have embarked on the exciting task of economic rejuvenation" · concluding endorsement framing Manmohan Singh's tenure as a turning point
- Making Indian Industry Globally Competitive
- "Dr. Manmohan Singh, our present Finance Minister, were also members of the same government" · contextualises Manmohan Singh's reform credentials
- "Credit should go to Dr. Manmohan Singh for his endeavour to introduce fruitful egalitarianism in place of sterile socialism." · final endorsement of Singh's reform agenda as historically significant
- The Emerging Scenario in Education
- "Our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said the other day that we need to give access to people at the bottom of the pyramid and we need to ensure that there is investment in research and technology at the top of the pyramid." · Manmohan Singh cited as the policy anchor for the speaker's education reform agenda
- THE UNION BUDGET 1992-93 by Nani Palkhivala
- "Dr. Manmohan Singh has rightly emphasized that unless certain values are adhered to by the nation, it cannot come out of the recession." · Manmohan Singh's reformist authority cited in support of Palkhivala's own analysis of the 1992-93 budget
- The Tiger Caged – Part II
- "those being misguided by vested interests into opposing Dr Manmohan Singh's reforms." · Manmohan Singh identified as the reformist whose 1991 liberalisation programme Freedom First is defending