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India names US-based economist economic adviser

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NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Thursday appointed US-based economist Arvind Subramanian as the country’s chief economic adviser.

The announcement comes the same day as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that the government would overhaul the country’s archaic labor laws to draw more investment to Asia’s third largest economy. India also appointed a new finance secretary, the top bureaucrat in the country’s finance ministry Thursday.

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