Getting Competitive: A Practitioner Guide for India By R.C. Bhargava

At a time when the slowing economic growth and worries about rising joblessness are prime concerns, Getting Competitive comes as one of the sharpest, clearest analyses yet of some fundamental issues where economic policies have gone wrong. Alongside it offers pointers to how they can be corrected. R.C. Bhargava, chairman of Maruti-Suzuki, the largest automobile manufacturer in India, brings his vast experience in governance (he was in the IAS before joining Maruti Suzuki) and industry to show how policies in the seven decades since Independence have failed to make India a highly competitive manufacturing country.
Ironically, the conditions for India to be so were more favourable in 1950 than they are now. Meanwhile, some other Asian economies have surged ahead in much shorter time in comparison to India’s performance. The book indicates the causes behind the puzzle of India’s slow growth and explains how the country can do better.