Lenders at the gates

India remains reluctant to lift caps on foreign investment in corporate bonds. Critics say the country should change its stance now.

India's regulators eye the inflow of foreign capital into their country warily, not least because today's runaway economic growth may easily evolve into tomorrow's inflation. The wariness has consequences: the corporate bond market for example, capitalised at $36 billion as of March 2007 according to National Stock Exchange data, has a cap of only $1.5

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