By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA
Last week, on a special edition of our "Behind the Markets" podcast, I was joined by Gaurav Sinha, Associate Director of Asset Allocation and Modern Alpha at WisdomTree, and Srinivas Thiruvadanthai of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center to discuss India's current general election.
The 70s and the Opening Up of the Economy
Thiruvadanthai grew up in India during the 1970s, when shortages of essential goods like sugar and rice were rampant. People had to wait for 10 years to get a landline phone. Life started improving during the 1980s and 1990s,