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Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

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Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar is a research fellow with a special focus on India and Asia at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His research interests include economic change in developing countries, human rights and civil strife, political economy, energy, trade and industry. He is a prolific columnist and TV commentator in India, well-known for a popular weekly column titled "Swaminomics" in the Times of India. He is the author of Escape From The Benevolent Zookeepers - The Best Of Swaminomics (New Delhi: Times of India, 2008) and has been called “India’s leading economic journalist” by Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution. He has been the editor of India's two biggest financial dailies, The Economic Times and Financial Express, and was also the India correspondent of The Economist for two decades. He has frequently been a consultant to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. Swami spends part of the year in India and part in the USA. He holds a Master's degree in economics from Oxford University, UK.


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Books and Book Chapters

"Introduction," Escape from the Benevolent Zookeepers (2008)

Cato Studies

"The Benefits of Port Liberalization: A Case Study from India," Development Policy Analysis no. 7, December 3, 2008.

Articles and Newsletters

Small States: Not Handicapped and Under-Aided, but Advantaged and Over-Aided, The Cato Journal , Vol. 28 No. 3 Fall 2008

Opinion and Commentary

"India Votes For Continuity, Not Radical Change," Forbes, May 19, 2009

"No Change for the Dollar," Guardian, April 24, 2009

"It's Goodbye Chindia and Hello Chimerica," Times of India, April 19, 2009

"Can IMF Currency Replace the Dollar?," Times of India, April 5, 2009

"Market Capitalism Beats Bolivarian Socialism," Forbes, March 22, 2009

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Events

"India: The Emerging Giant," July 2, 2008 [Book Forum]

"India Unbound: A Personal Account of a Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age," April 22, 2002 [Book Forum]




Multimedia

Daily Podcast "SDRs as a New Reserve Currency" featuring Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, April 22, 2009 [Flash Audio, 06:16]