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I agree that India should start comparing with China, but the fact is China got a 30 year headstart on India. The gap may narrow as China's growth slows and India's rises, but the truth is that the chances of India catching up to China are about the same as Paksitan catching up to India.@Cobra Arbok
For 60-62 years of total 71 years of independence, Pakistan was ahead of India in all human development indices, in fact Pakistan per capita GDP was twice that of India in the 60's...later on bad planning, policies, WOT took that impetus away and the growth curve from Pakistan..it is just a matter of time Pakistan catches up, has all the parameters, resources and need just the right road map ahead, seems things are falling in Places now.
BTW India per capita income ranks it at 131st spot and Pakistan is just slightly behind at 140th or something in the world and per capita income of India is ahead in a minuscule proportion, about 18-20% higher than Pakistan.
The HDI indices, the economy, per capita economy difference between India and Pakistan is small and can easily be bridged the difference between China and India with almost the same population is glaring and big. China economy is about 5 times that of India and their exports are about 10 times that of India...
India need to start comparing and competing with China as the two countries are equal in population sizes, Pakistan is just 15% of India population, yes Pakistan comparing itself with India makes sense as India is a bigger country with bigger economy w.r.t population and size.
I have already explained the reasons for India's stagnation. And as the diagram I posted shows, it was only under Zia Ul-Haq that Pakistan surpassed India, Before that, the two countries were about equal.
The gap between India and Pakistan may appear small on paper, but it is still substantial. The gap between India and Pak on HDI is even bigger, because Pakistan ranks barely in the medium developed category.
Anyway, I do not see how it is mathematically possible for Pak to catch up to India as long as the trend of India growing 7 to 8% continues, while pak barely gets 5.
And if you want to talk about exports and trade, the percentage of Pakistan's trade is miniscule compared to India's.
India currently has 25.770 billion USD in exports, whereas Pakistan has just over 1.6 billion. that is a pretty big gap.
https://tradingeconomics.com/india/exports
https://tradingeconomics.com/pakistan/exports
Also, India is the largest import partner of 5 countries, wheras there is not one country with which Pakistan is the biggest trading partner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_India
Look, I am not saying everything is perfect in India, but overall it is still doing better developmentally than Pakistan. The important thing though, is that India is rapidly improving both in economically and socially, whereas Pakistan is stagnating. With that being said, it looks like IK has the right ideas about what Pakistan needs to improve economically and developmentally. Whether he delivers on those ideas is yet to be seen.
Thank you for debating in a civil and respectful manner.
Correct, India's land reforms failed. India is just one of many examples of how socialism fails to develop a country. And yet there are idiots running for office who want to bring socialism to the US.Land reforms was a complete failure in India and looks good only on paper, Pakistan has land reforms started in 1958, much successful...again started under Bhutto, not very effective and restarted under Zia as well.
India has the largest number of rural poor as well as landless households in the world. Landlessness is a strong indicator of rural poverty in the country. Land is most valuable (for) ...economic independence, social status and a modest and permanent means of livelihood ...identity and dignity and ...opportunities for realising social equality.
IMPACT ON LANDLESSNESS
It is hardly surprising therefore that the cumulative impact of all these measures of land reform on rural landlessness has been negligible. The Draft Land Reforms Policy, using National Sample Survey Office (nsso) data (2003-04), notes that while one-third of all rural households are landless, those near to landlessness (less than 0.4 hectares) add up one-third more. The next 20% hold less than 1 hectare. In other words, 60% of the country’s population has rights over only 5% of the country’s land, whereas 10% of the population has control over 55% of the land (DLRP 2013). Even admitting that the data from 2003-04 is not strictly comparable to NSSO 1992, Rawal (2008) suggests that it shows an increase of as much as 6 percentage points in landlessness, while inequality in landownership also increased.
To the small extent that land reforms have actually been implemented on the ground, what has been its impact on the lives of those who received land allotments ? Many field studies show that while the possession of land added to their social standing and self-confidence, very often they were unable to cultivate it because supporting credit or grants were not available for land development and input costs (Iyer 1997).
This depressing history of the nearly failed project of land reforms in India and its negligible impact on rural poverty and landlessness is familiar both to scholars and administrators. In the light of this, what optimism can there be about the new Draft Land Reform Policy ?