Narendra Modi’s election as Prime Minister in May 2014 was initially hailed worldwide as marking the advent of a more business-friendly government in the world’s largest democracy. Encouraged by Modi’s pro-market sound bites – he vowed to “replace red tape with a red carpet,” declared that the government has “no business” in business, and campaigned on the slogan “Make in India” – investors rushed to praise him as a new messiah of development.
2014年5月，莫迪当选为印度总理，当时，全世界为之欢呼，认为世界最大的民主国家终于迎来了对商界比较友好的政府。受莫迪亲市场态度的鼓舞——他宣誓要“用红地毯代替红头文件”，称政府“无为”于商业，并打出了“印度制造”的口号——投资者纷纷赞扬他是发展的新救星。