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An Evolving Relationship
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India Abroad
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March 24, 2006
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- Joshi, Ashwin
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Joshi, Ashwin
India Abroad
03-24-2006
Well over a decade ago, in the early 1990s 1990s, Dean Dezs Horvth, Dean
of the Schulich School of Business at York University, made his first visit
to India. Back then India was very much a planned economy that was
diligently registering a gross domestic product growth rate of around 4
percent (the infamous 'Hindu Growth Rate'). In that context, Dean Horvth's
speech to the Chamber of Commerce in Bangalore was especially significant.
He exhorted the business leaders to break free of their mental shackles and
challenged them to think beyond the language of protectionism and to focus
on becoming leading players in a competitive national market and in
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