China per capita GDP 8,123.18 USD 2016, in 2018, $10000 per capita.HDI score = quality.
You haven't understood.
Let me make it simpler. China and Kerala have similar HDI scores.
Kerala's per capita income in 2016 is $3100.
China's per capita income in 2016 is $6900.
Do you see the difference here? Less than half the per capita but similar HDI scores.
So 15 years later, Kerala may compete in HDI with the US and France with possibly 1/5th the per capita income. That is called affordable development.
Similarly I'm sure China will compete with US and France in HDI scores with less than half the per capita income in the next 10-15 years.
It can be replicated in 15 years.
The thing is unlike most small countries, India has the potential to create world beating companies that can attract money and talent, like the US does.
Can't compare the technology levels of Indonesia with India.
Since countries like India and China are large, development can happen at a much larger scale with a smaller per capita. For example, both India and China have started building bullet trains with a low per capita income. While small countries can do so only when they have 2x the per capita income because they do not have the population advantage.
If policy changes are robust and actually work, then we will see a transformation to countries like Thailand and Malaysia are today by 2025.
For example, the govt wants universal healthcare, they want to triple and then quadruple healthcare spending by that time, while also reducing the cost of healthcare by more than half.
Then they have started a housing development scheme where every single Indian family will have a house. It started in the mid 80s, but it's got a new booster dose under the new govt. That takes care of sanitation.
Education is undergoing structural reforms as well.
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