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Blame on strangers. Reducing their success. Voices win. Check the future.

This is the previous political playing book RBI Raghuram Rajan disintegrating in his new article, the costs of the victims.

With indicative criticism of the Indian class policy and the latest Donald Trump’s latest attacks on foreign students, Rajan warns: populism is not harmful – it sabotaging global competitiveness.

“Perhaps the easiest political strategy at the present time is to inform the unstable voters that they are victims,” ​​Rajan writes. The formula works: resentment of stirring, protecting the promise, and do not demand anything in return. But the cost, as it argues, rises in the long run.

In India, local politicians are calling for local population classes in prosperous cities, claiming that strangers take many high -quality private sector roles. Rajan’s explicit refutation: “It may simply reflect a greater advantage.”

It warns the opportunity and suffocates the company’s productivity. “Filling the higher levels of the company with the sub -local population affects productivity and competitiveness,” he wrote. The result? Companies, and the transition – or collapse – shrink jobs for the local population with them.

Through the ocean, the same narration is playing. Rajan explodes the suggestion of Donald Trump to reduce foreign students in American elite universities to 15 %, a decrease from 31 %. Trump claims that the Americans are going out. Rajan calls her self -sabotage. “Such a policy can cause permanent damage,” he writes, pointing to the research and innovation led by foreign students. Cap for them, and American universities declined – along with the American world edge.

Even Trump’s batch “to bring an iPhone” show fire. Rajan explains how to force Apple to manufacture in the United States at height costs, disrupt global demand, and wipe service revenues from platforms such as the application store. The result? Weaker apple – weaker economy.

Instead, Rajan urges leaders at the highest level, not below. It carries Singapore as a rare model. When parents complained that Chinese students who were outperforming the local population, a minister replied: “In 15 years, when your children get jobs, do these Chinese children prefer their competitor alongside them because they grew up here, or against them?” The complaints stopped.

Rajan’s message is clear: The victim’s policy may win the elections. But the smartest countries compete with talents, not their status.