An additional justification on agreeing with Gandhi’s quote pertains to the failed economic growth and overall development caused by the tyrannical control of a country, leading to a breakdown of the regime. The term “economic growth” is defined as an increase in a country’s productive capacity as measured by comparing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the respective country per annum. A plethora of categories must be taken into account to determine the degree of economic growth, such as the increase in capital stock, advances in technology, and the improvement of literacy levels. On the other hand, in terms of the essay, the overall development is the overall degree of success, prosperity, and well-being in all aspects of living. To
The two authors argue the main issue that India is continuing to face are due to the lack of concern for citizens especially for the poor citizens and women. Dreze and Sen proceed into their work as they continue to portray the way in which the citizens of India were being oppressed by the new economic and political policies. One of the issues Dreze and Sen use as an example of how India rapid economic growth is problematic is the countries lack to foster participation for economic growth. The lack of inclusion in economic growth leads to a wealth disparity between the citizens. The authors continue on depicting several other issues another one being the lack of enhancement to the standard of living despite generating economic growth from the use of public goods. The standards of living are a huge issue with India as it signals there is a large disparity within wealth. Dreze and Sen continue to document the lack of social and living standards especially in the case of education, medical care, and physical services like clean water, electricity, drainage, and sanitation. The authors proceed to make note how without a development of a social structure within India high economic growth can harm the citizens and ultimately neglect civil, political, and social rights. Dreze and Sen then
The population in India has brought positive effects for markets to increase economic growth. However, the increase demand to industrialize in rural communities around India would leave people to migrate to them and cause harm in their resources.
Poverty in rural areas of India is associated with multiple factors. Rural population is primarily depended upon agriculture. Unusual pattern of rain and low standard irrigation system severely affect the incomes of the people living in rural areas. Caste system of India still exists in rural areas where people belonging to lower castes lack the opportunities to grow and subsequently earn
The unique caste system also known as a closed system that is used throughout the subcontinent parts of India allows for a person's status to be ascribed through birth. Being apart of a caste systems means that social status does not really change, you are stuck with that status for the rest of your life, meaning no social mobility. Caste systems are not based on economic factors in this system is influenced by religion and everybody tries to fulfill the caste duties following certain customs, rituals, and folkways. The system is stable and orderly grouping people into the four major groups, keeping people of there own kind into the same group. The class system is based on the principle of achievements and effort from a person. The class system
First of all, this followed a period of more indirect political control from the British East India Company that was established progressively, starting in Bengal around 1757. (Banerjee, A., & Iyer, L.2005)For the period of this time, the Indian subcontinent experienced an amount of momentous structural changes to its economic and political schemes. Even though many of these procedures were legitimately transported to an end upon independence in August 1947, it is apparent that the prolonged period of overseas control had influences that insist in contemporary India. The effects of the British raj are methodically recognized and their legacies for India’s growth. As India was divided into a number of states after independence, the focus will be on what is now the
The term developmental state has been widely utilised to describe any state experiencing a period of economic development and improvement in living standards (Pham, 2012). One of the most significant arguments in this scope is the performance of developmental state model. A number of scholars have attempted to investigate this issue and arguments can be divided into three categories. Proponents of state intervention indicate that the state plays an indispensable role in directing economic development and utilising the resources of the country to achieve development goals. On the contrary, those who oppose state-led model argue
India stands one among the top ten economies of the world. It is a trillion-plus economy. People are exited with this fact that the nation is booming in both perspectives of human development as well economically. India is a heterogeneous country that could still hold a stable democracy and set a high economy level and grab a lot of people out of poverty level at the same time, this established a favourable context for opportunity with rapid growth in middle class, an ever increasing youth population and an enormous unmet demand for education.
The country of India has been home to some of the brightest and most influential people to ever walk this planet. However, they are still an ever evolving and developing country finding its footing in establishing themselves as a global power as well as developing internally. Many domestic problem exist, having grown and evolved from the foundation of India. Their issues consist of gender inequality, religious intolerance, economics, international relations, as well as corruption. Those are only some of the many problems which they face. As with many developing countries, India has a predominant issue when it comes to poverty. In August of 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, wrote the national document, “A Tryst with Destiny”. In the document he states, “The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavor?...to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity...which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.” To put the idea in perspective, it was written sixty-eight years ago at a transitional point in the countries history when they were granted freedom and independence from the oppressive rule of Great Britain. In this address, Nehru set forth his rule with many lofty goals that have yet to come to fruition. While it can’t have been expected that all these goal would be fulfilled, Nehru showed the country where they need to go in order to prosper into a great nation. This was
Pattern and Policy Issues Development literature in the past decade has become more people centric with human development being projected as one of the 'ends' of development planning. The present paper tries to explore the trends, patterns and regional dimension of human development (HD) in India through construction of alternate HD indices for the districts of India. The association between HD indices and conventional measures like per capita income has been explored.
Equity challenge: India is definitely developing in a much faster pace now than before but in spite of that it can be easily identified that developments is not equal in every ware. To get the complete growth, it is important to make sure that the both the rural area and urban area have the same amount of development.
Democracy and economic development are two concepts that were not related initially, however, with the rise of democracies and the subsequent economic development there is an established correlation between the two concepts. The question that this paper will seek to address is “which is the best regime for economic development”. In responding tothis question it is significant to first distinguish between the different regimes that are available; liberal democracy, illiberal democracy and authoritarianism. Additionally, is prudent to define development before arriving at a consensus on the
India is a developing country. The factors hindering development of the country are many. Some of them can be attributed to the low per capita income and larger chunk of the population living under the poverty line. India is a country with poor people but with rich natural resources. It can be said that the country’s potential is either the human resource or the natural resources are not adequately utilized to the maximum extent and that resulted in low per capita income. India is an agrarian economy. The economy is marred with unemployment and under employment. Since the economy is basically agrarian, disguised unemployment is also rampant among the farmer community.
India’s population extends to 32.7 percent urban (68 percent rural) with an average annual change of 2.38%, providing market opportunity. Urban agglomeration is found in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Kolkata (formally spelled Calcutta).
Slums are hindrance to the achievement of economic growth and development. It is the duty of the government to plan effectively towards the achievement of quality life within the cities. Slums contribute towards the presence of criminal activities within the cities and unemployment hence a significant force towards the overall economic development. Upgrading of slums is vital in the process of offering economic, social, institutional, and cultural services to the city dwellers like other citizens.