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M.V. Lee Badgett, economics, has calculated that India was losing $26 billion per year in economic activity by discriminating against LGBT people

A news story about how Malaysia’s Prime Minister Maharthir Mohamad says he doesn’t think Asia needs to copy the West in accepting its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens, notes that M.V. Lee Badgett, economics, has calculated that India was losing $26 billion per year in economic activity by discriminating against LGBT people. (Bloomberg, 10/25/18)