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Every license; every permit; was procured by corrupt means。

印度財政部長(1996…1998) P。 CHIDAMBARAM:每張執照,每個許可證都是透過腐敗的行為獲得的。

INTERVIEWER: A bribe?

記者:您是指賄賂?

P。 CHIDAMBARAM: Well; "bribe" is the simpler word; I suppose。

P。 CHIDAMBARAM:哦,我想“賄賂”還只是較輕的字眼。

NARRATOR: Self…sufficiency was India's ideal。 To protect its own manufacturing industry; India shut out foreign imports。

旁白:自給自足是印度的理想,為保護它自己的製造業,印度禁止從國外進口。

P。 CHIDAMBARAM: Because of this protected market; the Indian people were being given shoddy goods and services at very high prices。 Enterprise was stifled; and growth was crippled。

P。 CHIDAMBARAM:由於這樣的保護性市場,印度人只能以高昂的價格獲得低等的商品和服務,企業缺乏生機,經濟增長陷入泥潭。

JAIRAM RAMESH; Indian Government Advisor; 1991…1998: The economic environment was simply not conducive to efficiency or profitability。 We were in a shortage economy。 My father waited 15 years to buy a car。

印度政府顧問(1991…1998)JAIRAM RAMESH:很明顯,經濟環境不利於提高效率和盈利,我們是一個短缺經濟。我父親買一輛汽車排隊等了15年時間。

NARRATOR: Take India's beloved Ambassador car。 It is made by Hindustan Motors; which started manufacturing in the same year as Japan's Toyota。 Fifty years later; Toyota makes five million cars a year。 Hindustan sells 18;000 Ambassadors; and still to the same design。

旁白:以印度最受歡迎的“大使” (Ambassador)牌汽車為例,這款汽車是由印度汽車公司(Hindustan Motors)製造的,與日本的豐田(Toyota)同時期投入的生產,50年後,豐田(Toyota)公司年產汽車500萬輛,而印度汽車公司(Hindustan Motors)的年銷量只有18000輛,而且款式設計仍然與50年前一樣。

MANMOHAN SINGH; Finance Minister; 1991…1996: If you have a controlled economy; cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection; nobody has any incentive to; in a way。。。 nobody has any incentive to increase productivity; to bring new ideas。

財政部長(1991…1996) 買買汗。辛格(Manmohan Singh):在管制經濟中,透過一系列無窮無盡的保護,把自己與