In the course of the last three days I have spent at the 2009 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF), I have heard speeches from many politicians and policy-makers — from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma to Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. They all invariably identified many socio-economic problems that could cripple India’s growth in the medium to long term. These include a dysfunctional education and healthcare system, deficient energy supply, restrictive labor laws, labyrinthine business registration process, and so on. They all more or less said: “The government is trying to fix all these problems.”