An employee cleans the floor inside a shopping mall in Mumbai
An employee cleans the floor inside a shopping mall in Mumbai July 14, 2012. Asia's third-largest economy is growing at its slowest pace in nine years and sluggish consumer spending is forcing mall developers to scale back plans. It will take years for the glut of retail space conceived during headier times to be absorbed by tenants, even as India fine-tunes rules to make it easier for foreign shops to enter the country on their own, analysts say. Picture taken July 14, 2012. To match analysis INDIA-MALL/ REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS)