His pragmatic approach to reforms to turn India’s underperformance into an active agent of growth won him support in 2014 to become prime minister. India’s economic policy from the beginning of independence was more based on socialistic principles of giving priority to state planning, i.e. This was heavily protected: high tariffs and exchange controls, import controls, highly nationalistic investment promotions, very restrictive limitation of foreign direct investments. This awakened the politics of India with the need for economic reforms. Phl economic reforms parallel India.

Source: Philippine Star June 18, 2019 16:00 UTC