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Can India grow faster? Answers from history

Can India grow faster? Answers from history

Tirthankar Roy, SMF-CAGE Global Perspectives Series: Paper 3, July 2015
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Tirthankar Roy, SMF-CAGE Global Perspectives Series: Paper 3, July 2015

The Indian economy is growing at a respectable rate. IMF and the World Bank predict that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow at 7.5-8 per cent in 2016, which is good news for Indians and for the world. Yet many people believe that the country can do better and change the lives of its citizens more rapidly than at present. Can India grow faster? I answer that India can, if Indians sort out their troubled relationship with the idea of globalisation.

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