..........Atri Mukherjee, in a report titled “Regional Inequality in Foreign Direct Investment Flows to India: The Problem and the Prospects” (2011), written for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), says that for the period between 2008-2009 and 2011-2012, these six States received 70 per cent FDI; Delhi and Maharashtra between themselves accounted for 50 per cent FDI. To get over this inequality, it is important not just to develop other States which have been left behind, but also encourage their participation in reaching out to the outside world. Here, Mr. Modi would do well to take a leaf out of the book of both the U.S. and Chinese models of sub-national participation in economic diplomacy, where provinces which were not developed were given special attention......
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