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China reported double-digit for over three decades. There is a big difference between reporting growth and actual growth.
If you ponder you will know why there is so much gap in case of china when you move from "headline news" to "ground reality".
China produces 50% of the world coal.. but with population less than 20% of the world.
China produced more steel in the last two decades than USA produced since 1776.
Since nobody is willing to buy all that coal "raw", it has to be burnt entirely in east china (east of the great wall), and chinese enjoy the fumes.
Take out the mineral output of china, and GDP ratio between India and china won't even be 2.5 -- apart from mineral digging part, bulk of the economic activity is a parity.
If you break a bridge on a river every year, and built it a fresh .. or you just buid a bridge that lasts 50 years .. you derive the same utility. But GDP looks great if you follow the former approach ... while the second approach will give you a zero GDP for the next 49 years.
And coal won't last for ever ... neither will CPC's fancy "news" ... because when coal ends, the food supply also ends. No more food imports.
Let us look at the top 5 economic powers in the world
United States Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks English
China Non-Democracy but one dominant ethnic group that speaks Chinese
Japan Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks Japanese
Germany Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks German
France Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks French
While India is a democracy and no dominant ethnic group, and the country has more than a dozen major languages.
The common theme of economic success seems to be having a dominant ethnic group that can impose it's will on the whole country.
Quite the contrary. If the middle class had its way it would elect the BJP everytime. Many middle class people do not even bother to vote because they know their vote does not make a big difference. The ultra poor often vote on planks of caste, religion, gifts, promises of basic necessities etc.
So you ultimately understood the truth.yeah, india is always right and great!
India don't want chinese growth model, except Mody. We want steady and sustainable economic growth unlike China. Indian growth will catch pace with time and then It would be sustainable too. We don't want metro or uneven growth pattern in our different regions. Our policy makers are concentrating on inclusive growth throughout India. We will start every future round of ecnomic liberlization only after the benefits of prior liberlized economic policies reached to the lowest level of Indian socity and this model starts showing results in terms of poverty reduction. USA along with other developed economies and large MNCs exerted to much pressure to press Indian govt for fast liberlization like China. Even a global media compaign was launched terming Indian policies self sucidal and an enviorenment was created that India lagged China in economic development due to these policies. Similar compains were launched in India too through different media channels & outlets and these compaigns hurt Manmohan govt and congress party politically. But Indian govt did not break in front of this enormous pressure for larger interest of our nation.
The size and pace of depeletion of Chinese natural resources and damage caused to Chinese enviorenment is nearlly un-repairable or It has a unbearable cost even for China. It is going to cause enormous problems for China in near future. Any country having size and natural resources like China can pursue a ultra fast growth like China. But problem is, when need arises to absorbe the growth evenly with similar pace, which is not possible for a developing country of China's size. In this case, the most benefits generated with fast pace would only be absorved by country's elite, some specific geographical areas and tier 1 and tier 2 cities at max. India also start following the similar model during BJP govt's time only to get corrected when congress formed the govt under MMS and trio of Indian top notch economista i.e. MMS, Chidambram and Montek succeeded in setting the Indian economy at steady and sustainable deveopment path.
There are several more examples which have one dominant ethnic group and they are still LDCs.
Economic success is not about domination of one ethnic group. It is about creating an enabling environment that promotes growth.
That is the common factor here, not one dominant ethnic group.
China had one ethnic group at the time of Mao and at the time of Deng.
Think of what changed...
Let us look at the top 5 economic powers in the world
United States Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks English
China Non-Democracy but one dominant ethnic group that speaks Chinese
Japan Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks Japanese
Germany Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks German
France Democracy and one dominant ethnic group that speaks French
While India is a democracy and no dominant ethnic group, and the country has more than a dozen major languages.
The common theme of economic success seems to be having a dominant ethnic group that can impose it's will on the whole country.
This point makes sense to me.
Your article can be title as "sour grape, 2013" An updated edition of Aesop's fable.
And China has been able to progress from that period while India is still languishing in 3rd world status.
Look at South Asia now, and think why both Sri Lanka and BD seem to be doing better than India. BD only slightly behind India now as it gained independence in 1971 as opposed to 1947 for India.
I am not criticising Indians for wanting to be together in a large state but there is an economic penalty to be paid for this.
btw, can you name those examples and I am sure I can explain that away
We are happy with our ‘sour grapes’ for the time being. We will wait till these grapes ripen & sweetened naturally, and then we will title them 'ripen grapes, 2025'. I congratulate you for your sweet grapes titled 'Ripen Grapes, 2013'. Problem with your sweetened grapes is that they did not ripe naturally and you used artificial means to ripe those by using strong salts. These salted grapes are toxic and will work as slow poison. So your health’s conditions is bound to get deteriorate with time.
BDs are the most shameless & unthankful people on earth. Bangladesh's economic growth is directly linked to India and facilitated by India. If we have not supported you, you should have been still collecting 'Patsan' from ganges and making 'Boris & Taats'. We can send back BD economy to stoneages in no time and without firing a single bullet.
India don't want chinese growth model, except Mody. We want steady and sustainable economic growth unlike China. Indian growth will catch pace with time and then It would be sustainable too. We don't want metro or uneven growth pattern in our different regions. Our policy makers are concentrating on inclusive growth throughout India. We will start every future round of ecnomic liberlization only after the benefits of prior liberlized economic policies reached to the lowest level of Indian socity and this model starts showing results in terms of poverty reduction. USA along with other developed economies and large MNCs exerted to much pressure to press Indian govt for fast liberlization like China. Even a global media compaign was launched terming Indian policies self sucidal and an enviorenment was created that India lagged China in economic development due to these policies. Similar compains were launched in India too through different media channels & outlets and these compaigns hurt Manmohan govt and congress party politically. But Indian govt did not break in front of this enormous pressure for larger interest of our nation.
The size and pace of depeletion of Chinese natural resources and damage caused to Chinese enviorenment is nearlly un-repairable or It has a unbearable cost even for China. It is going to cause enormous problems for China in near future. Any country having size and natural resources like China can pursue a ultra fast growth like China. But problem is, when need arises to absorbe the growth evenly with similar pace, which is not possible for a developing country of China's size. In this case, the most benefits generated with fast pace would only be absorved by country's elite, some specific geographical areas and tier 1 and tier 2 cities at max. India also start following the similar model during BJP govt's time only to get corrected when congress formed the govt under MMS and trio of Indian top notch economista i.e. MMS, Chidambram and Montek succeeded in setting the Indian economy at steady and sustainable deveopment path.