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Jaithirth Rao
Jaithirth Rao
Corruption
Jerry Rao, serial entrepreneur and founder of India-based real estate company Value and Budget Housing Corporation, discusses the causes of corruption in the real estate sector. He blames a regulatory system which keeps adding new laws without removing old ones, requiring him and others to secure multiple approvals from layers of lower and middle level civil servants.Duration: 02:40
Dato' Sri Tahir
Dato' Sri Tahir
Corruption
Daro’ Sri Tahir, founder of a large financial service group in Indonesia, argues that the whole eco-system of the country is corrupt, with businesses pursuing strategies which make no economic sense, and then using their control over politicians to rescue them when things go awry.Duration: 01:48
Abbas Akbarally
Abbas Akbarally
Government & Business
Abbas Akbarally, Chair of Akbar Brothers which is Sri Lanka’s and the world’s largest tea company, discusses the consequences of the Sri Lankan government’s nationalization of tea plantations in the 1970s.Duration: 03:40
Rahul Bajaj
Rahul Bajaj
Government Regulation
Rahul Bajaj, head of the India-based diversified business group Bajaj Group, talks about the days of License Raj in India before 1991 when Bajaj scooters had a ten-year delivery period. He discusses how people had to either book the scooter the minute a girl was born or buy it on the black market, as it was a necessary part of the bride's dowry.Duration: 01:17
Susana Balbo
Susana Balbo
Government Regulation
Susana Balbo, owner and chief winemaker of Susana Balbo wines based in Argentina, discusses the problems of regulatory restrictions, especially around doing business internationally, and the difficulty of competing with businesses that evade legal restrictions.Duration: 07:36
Omobola Johnson
Omobola Johnson
Government Regulation
Omobola Johnson, the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria, discusses the need for innovative regulation that engages industry.Duration: 02:05
Ranjan Kapur
Ranjan Kapur
Government Regulation
Ranjan Kapur, the former India country manager of the WPP advertising agency, describes the dramatic growth in the advertising industry in India after deregulation, and how his previous experience in Singapore before his returned to India in 1997 shaped his perspective on the industry.Duration: 02:04
Aroon Purie
Aroon Purie
Government Regulation
Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India Today, explains the opening of the Indian economy and suggests that the major drivers of economic growth have not been government policies but rather due to a series of revolutions in the IT industry, the auto industry, telecommunications, and satellite television.Duration: 10:20
Jaithirth Rao
Jaithirth Rao
Government Regulation
Jerry Rao, serial entrepreneur and founder of the India-based Value and Budget Housing Corporation, describes the burgeoning of "entrepreneurial spirits" as regulations and policies governing industry were liberalized in the 1990s.Duration: 01:17
Jaithirth Rao
Jaithirth Rao
Government Regulation
Jerry Rao, a serial entrepreneur and founder of the India-based Value and Budget Housing Corporation, describes the "palimpsest of laws" regulating business in India, and the ways in which this bureaucratic accretion of rules creates gridlock for businesses.Duration: 01:40