Credit crisis could benefit India

On the virtues of making haste slowly

This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.

V Anantha Nageswaran would smile when he sees the Economist Intelligence Unit concede that:

Ironically, the current global situation is also making India’s measured pace of economic reform look wiser than before. At a time when Western countries are frantically nationalising banking assets, the Indian government’s reluctance to sell more than 49% in its state-owned banks—which control some 70% of banking assets—now seems reassuring. In addition, India has not yet introduced full capital-account convertibility, which protects its currency, while its careful control of foreign borrowings by domestic companies limits dependence on the global financial system. Regulators have also periodically introduced curbs to slow the formation of potential asset bubbles, such as higher provisioning and prudential requirements on real-estate lending.

The EIU believes that while there would be some short-term worries, Indian companies are likely to use the crisis to make overseas acquisitions.

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