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        <title><![CDATA[Ila Patnaik - Professor]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Ila Patnaik is an economist and professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in New Delhi. She previously served as principal economic adviser to the government of India.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Rupee Is Falling and India Should Let It]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Central-bank intervention has a poor track record.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:04:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[India Shortchanges Its Banks]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Politics and fear-mongering have doomed a key reform. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 23:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A customer counts new Indian two thousand rupee banknotes outside an India Post branch in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. The Indian government is battling to keep cash dispensing machines running after efforts to ease withdrawals failed to keep pace for the fifth straight day.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is India Creating Jobs or Not?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[That’s the wrong question to ask.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 23:30:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[India's Banks Need a Stronger Watchdog]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Simply privatizing state banks won't prevent another crisis.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ila Patnaik]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 21:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Pedestrians walks past signage for ICICI Bank Ltd. automated teller machines (ATM) in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. India&apos;s Finance Ministry will recommend bold tax reform to ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi&apos;s growth-crimping cash ban wasn&apos;t in vain, people familiar with the matter said. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images</media:description>
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