Lowy Institute Paper 01 India THE NEXT ECONOMIC GIANT Mark P Thirlwell Lowy Institute Paper 01 India THE NEXT ECONOMIC GIANT Mark P Thirlwell Program Director, International Economy Lowy Institute for International Policy First published for Lowy Institute for International Policy 2004 by Longueville Media PO Box 102 Double Bay New South Wales 1360 Australia www.longmedia.com.au
[email protected] Tel. 02 9386 0081 Copyright © Lowy Institute for International Policy 2004 South Asia Map No. 4010 Rev. 3 January 2004 reproduced with permission from the UN Cartographic section. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (including but not limited to electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or recording), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Cover and text design by Shane Grantham Printed and bound in Australia Typeset in Esprit Book 10 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data Thirlwell, Mark P., 1968- . India : the next economic giant. Bibliography. ISBN 1 921004 00 2. 1. India - Foreign economic relations. 2. India - Economic conditions - 21st century. I. Lowy Institute for International Policy. II. Title. (Series : Lowy Institute for International Policy ; no. 1). 382.0954 South Asia Mark Thirlwell is Director of the International Economy Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Before joining the Lowy Institute he worked on international economic issues at the Bank of England, JP Morgan and most recently at the Australian Export Finance and Insurance Corporation.