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[...] the pursuit of better access to visas for short-term skilled migration has led the Indian negotiating team at the WTO to side with the developed world in promoting full-scale liberalisation of services. Such liberalisation measures are not necessarily in the interests of the rest of the India…

[...] FDI in ITES and It will not automatically lead to greater IT diffusion [...] part of the 'business-friendly environment' allegedly required to develop an Indian-style software industry is the strong enforcement of anti-piracy software laws. [...] As NASSCOM became dominated by TNCs (including…

the fetter is an unfortunate impediment rather than immovable ballast

This change from domestic to transnational ownership [...] is a concern for the long-term development of the industry, as well as for India more broadly.

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Second, a captive-dominated industry primarily exporting ITES is far less embedded in the economy and therefore less developmental as…