because in 1991 when we were selling gold for our imports he initiated the economic liberalisation.The reforms did away with the Licence Raj ended many public monopolies, allowing automatic approval of foreign direct investment in many sectors.Since then India had progressed towards a free-market economy. This has been accompanied by increases in life expectancy, literacy rates and food security, although the beneficiaries have largely been urban residents. AND when he became the PM the Growth Rate increased from 5 % to 9%.Foreigners respect him because it is difficult to add even 1% to growth and he doubled that growth.
Yes his government is facing many problems of corruption (DMK's raja),even then nobody ever doubted his integrity ,we should be proud of Our BEST PM because after so many money making jobs (before Fm and Pm) still his only car parked in PM house is MARUTI 800 So before saying anything about Dr. Manmohan Singh u should know that you are talking about the politician who took a loan of 2lac for election champain in 1999 because he didn't had that much money .