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Huge congratulations to Shruti Rajagopalan for being named to Vox's Future Perfect 50 list. Vox looks for a range of scientists, researchers, activists, artists and more — in the US and around the world — who embody the question Future Perfect asks every day: How do we make the future a better place for everyone? Shruti was selected for her work on the 1991 project that she leads here at Mercatus. See Vox's write up below. "The most important year in India’s economic miracle was?1991, when a currency crisis spurred Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and Finance Minister Manmohan Singh to promulgate a sweeping series of economic reforms that devalued the rupee, slashed tariffs, and abolished strict laws requiring government licenses to import goods or invest in businesses. All that happened within a single month. Most observers credit the reforms for enabling India’s subsequent growth takeoff and rapid reduction in extreme poverty. How did these sweeping changes happen, and so quickly? The lawyer and economist Shruti Rajagopalan is leading a fascinating effort,?The 1991 Project, which seeks to answer those questions through historical research, oral history interviews with major players in the 1991 reforms, and archiving important documents from the reforms. If we can understand how India’s reforms worked, the lessons for global development more broadly will be invaluable."