Manubhai Shah (1 November 1915 – 28 December 2000) was an Indian politician who played an important political and developmental role in independent India for over half a century.
[9] Gunnar Myrdal, who went on to win the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics, quoted Shah as saying "The policy has always been pragmatic ... [as] the prime consideration has always been rapid growth rather than doctrinaire division of spheres.
[10] Myrdal alaos quoted Shah as saying "Long run growth of income will proceed fastest if instead of trying to do everything at the same time, we concentrate initially on basic and heavy industry".
Immediately upon taking over office as Union Minister in New Delhi in 1956, he began setting up trade bodies to increase exports and make easy the bringing into the country imports of essential goods.
His most notable contribution to international trade is his setting up in 1986 of the INDIA CIS Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCCI) as Founder President.