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Comment: Oil crisis: Its impact on India’s development strategy.

  • UPSC 2006
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The oil shocks of 1973–74 and 1979–80, and the price spike of the 1990 Gulf crisis, turned West Asian wars into the binding constraint on Indian planning. In the language of Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye (Power and Interdependence, 1977), they exposed not merely India's sensitivity to oil prices but its vulnerability: it…

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  • The shocks and how they reached India
  • Impact on development strategy
  • Assessment
  • The present relevance
  • Conclusion
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