| Rajiv Kumar — India's Possible Role in Evolving Global Governance |
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India should concentrate on domestic reforms and lowering its poverty rate before it can play an effective role in global governance, said Rajiv Kumar during a public lecture at IDRC on June 10. “I think very often we in India tend to get distracted by our potential role in the global community at this stage,” said Kumar. “We would do very well to focus on our domestic agenda of reforms, on our domestic agenda of reconstructing this country… and when our poverty rate is below 5% of our population (which it can be, very easily), that is when India will be able to play an amazing, a very different, and in fact unparalleled role in global governance.”  Kumar is director and chief executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), one of India’s leading independent economic policy think tanks. He has also been the chief economist at the Confederation of Indian Industries in New Delhi, and spent nine years as principal economist at the Asian Development Bank.. Kumar’s talk was the eleventh of the India Lectures – a series of public events marking the 25 th anniversary of IDRC’s regional office in New Delhi and celebrating the Centre’s enduring and valued collaboration with its Indian research partners. The opinions expressed here reflect those of the speaker alone, and not necessarily those of the International Development Research Centre.
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Listen to Kumar’s entire lecture (32:37)
