But I think it would be difficult to attribute this higher rate of growth to neoliberal policies alone, since initial conditions are extremely important in economic trajectory. This is true for China as well. This is true, numbers seem to skew everything. The East Asia crisis immediately rolled back whatever plans it had. Neither have done much privatizing.
Privatization is politically difficult in India.
While piracy at the individual level may be common my own research suggests that software piracy is limited in India. Today this is less true for India. India has gone through several SAPs, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s. But these SAPs were not of the kind that we find in other places, Turkey, Argentina, etc.