India's Economy Since 1968: Growth & Challenges

History of India's Economy (Since 1968)

• Analyzes economic policies and political factors transforming India into a major global player since 1968.
• Assesses remaining challenges against this transformation.
• India has broken free from low growth and significantly reduced its poverty rate.

Keywords and Classifications

• Key subjects covered include growth history, corruption, technological change and political economy.
• JEL classifications include A12, B10, B31, N14, and O10.

Gunnar Myrdal's Impact

• Myrdal's book highlighted economics intertwined with sociology, psychology and politics
• Influenced study of economic history and development
• Early analysis of New Institutional Economics and Behavioral Economics.
• Myrdal's analysis indicated pessimism towards India’s government abilities for essential changes such as eradicating caste, land reform, corruption, and unemployment
• Advocated for economics as integral to sociology, psychology and politics.
• Myrdal sought India succeeding at breaking free from colonialism.
• Criticized the simplistic view of government as an exogenous institution.

India's Transformation and Remaining Challenges

• India is still challenged, but has broken from the 'Hindu rate of growth’.
• Since the late 1960s, the poverty rate steadily dropped, and more sharply in the last decade.
• India is now a major global player.
• Celebrates progress and assesses future challenges since the publication of Asian Drama in 1968.

Political Overview

• India uniquely prioritized establishing democracy even after imperialism ended.
• Democracy included, establishing free speech, independent media, and equal rights.
• Coups and power struggles caused democracy to fail in practically every new independant country but India.
• Early political leaders, like Nehru and Gandhi and luck contributed to said early progressive politics.
• India resembled an advanced nation as it pertained to political design, possessing a secular, progressive constitution.
• India's economy was a downside, due to large population under poverty, widespread illiteracy and sluggish economic development.
• India followed the Soviet model by setting up heavy industries and dam-building projects
• Mid-1960s experienced a 'Green revolution' in Punjab, Haryana, and Western Uttar Pradesh.

Economic Growth and Emergency Period

• Independence positively impacted India's annual growth, increasing to 3–3.5% in the decades following 1947.
• Indira Gandhi declared ‘Emergency’ in 1975 temporarily interrupting democracy.
• Hardliners believed Emergency helped economic growth, with GDP reaching 9%.
• Democracy returned post-Emergency, after Indira Gandhi called an election in 1977 being later defeated.
• Indira Gandhi initially followed Nehru's Fabian socialist ideology with focus on internationalism.
• However, she later shifted following her sons’ influence
• Nehru favored income equality, yet resisted centralizing power.
• India's form of socialism mainly consisted of verbal jugglery with some state capitalism.
• India had 14%, China 40% GDP from state owned businesses.
• Gandhi nationalized banks in 1969.
• She centralized power more than Nehru.
• Democracy established the 'one person, one vote' system while questions around the state's responsiveness remain.

India's Political Changes

• Regional parties gained prominence, leading to coalition politics at a national level.
• Rise of coalition parties and the need to master accommodation and compromise.
• Democracy is a remarkable achievement, requiring continued analysis and attention to weaknesses.
• Certain groups question India's early cultural openness, secularism, and free speech.
• Avoiding the wasting of this political capital is essential for improved economy, infrastructure, and development.

Economic Trajectory and Asian Comparison

• India's economy stands 8th poorest among 10 featured Asian countries in per capita GDP.
• South Korea and Singapore were relatively poor, but are now high income nations
• Bangladesh, China, Viet Nam, and India demonstrate faster economic growth rates.
• India's economic history since independence has been uneventful compared to peer nations
• The nation chugged along at a fairly steady low-growth rate, of around 3.5 per cent per annum, for it’s first three decades.
• The big break was in the 1980s, when the decadal growth breached the 5 percent mark for the first time.

Democracy and Economic Policy Experiments

• Democracy with free media and elections makes governments wary of policy experiments.
• Rapid increases in growth are shown by authoritarian states
• Indira Gandhi increased reliance on markets but fiscal fueling for short termism caused the 1990-91 economic crisis.
• The Gulf War stopped foreign exchange flow causing economic crisis of 1990-91.
• Economic reforms in 1991-93 lead to great shift, growing India's foreign exchange and removing the licencing system.

Impact of Policy Changes

• In order to have a good outcome, there must be foreign exchange to come in
• Foreign exchange did not come into India due to policy restrictions of India.
• India reached towards the IMF at the time of reforms to give guarantee.
• The exponential rise began in the 1990s and today stands at $400 billion, formerly $5 billion.
• The early political investments of Nehru played an important role.
• 30-40% savings and investment rates show India similar to East Asian economies
• Savings and investment rates used to be less
• Nationalization of all banks by Indira Gandhi boosts savings from banking expansion in rural areas-
• A comprehensive study showed that the banking expansion promotes savings.
• Public savings promoted overall savings due to muted displacement effect.
• India's most unusual growth was in the services sector, not manufacturing.

Growth in India's Service Sector

• The service sector grows in two waves; taking from low- to middle-income countries like India, triggered from information technology and finance
• Between 1980 and 2009 the service sector growth picked up 85 percent of the decline in share of agriculture
• Caused by a policy shift in computer sector, causing India to innovate, because of IBM's departure in 1977 because of Indian regulation
• The government bureaucracy enabled take-off of Indian software
• The software and IT did not use roads and ports.
• Democracy is connected to services growth.
• Good conditions create an ethos for openness, also internet connectivity.
• Engineer over-production of 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s an advantage

India, USA, and Worldwide Growth

• India became main partner of technology expertise with the USA.
• Trump protectionist policies and limited H1-B affected India, but also may have affected other nations like Germany.
• India should attempt skills building and improving of eduction.
• Education provides the labour, mechanical can be machines - which are what all the jobs used to be.
• India’s success with a services sector has put it on autopilot while focus is needed on energy and labour from other sectors.
• Better infrastructure and reduced bureaucracy will support the need from other sectors.

Indicators of Progress and Challenges

• Radical reform is coming with greater production and a skilled workforce.
• India has surprisingly done poorly on certain important indicators overall such as literacy with equality.
• There had a major effort made to literacy over time, but in 2011, with 74.04% is not adequate for literacy of Indian youth.
• There is very different values between different groups in India.
• Numbers are symptomic of other indicators like health and malnutrition.
• There are great distances to go for the nation.

Inequality and Future Prospects

• India can grow at 7 percent a year and more with projections and reflections.
• Inequality numbers are dismaying and reveal that India has become more rhetoric.
• Inequality measurement is of course a vexing problem, as Sen said in 1977.
• This shows high and worsening inequality, which is likely to have negative spillovers.
• India needs to reverse some these inequality trends.

Contemporary Challenges

• India experiences challenges and anxieties for early growth such deep-seated poverty.
• Corruption, growing inequality, turn challenges into advantages.
• Will attend disquiet of disenfrachised class a factor that is necessary for India's constant high inequality.

Bureaucratic Costs and Inefficiencies

• Bureaucratic transaction costs are too high, hampering enterprise, especially for small businesses.
• India ranks low in the 'ease of doing business' due to bureaucratic inefficiencies.
• India's bureaucratic performance is compared with other Asian economies.
• It requires time and permits to start new business.

Solutions for India

• It will take time and resolve for a country like India to resolve incosolvency.
• 4 years three months to be exacted.
• Hard to understand why has sector of manufacturing has failed to take-off.
• Remove Cumbersome and innecesary ways and make it not only a business boost to manufactoring sector.
• Not the target of Wordl Bank Indicators but do that so it suddenly becomes and much about and Indicator.
• Not the same as overall welfare.

Eliminating Hurdles in Manufacturing

• The goal of creating easy manufacturing must not remove regulations.
• Must not be equated with call to doing away with regulation.
• In order so that must not make it hard to create the rules for creating rules.
• Laws and custom creates it much easier to do so.
• People are forced in authority to get permissions.

Corruption and Control

• Myrdal used determination, not the analysis of leaders as a remedy.
• Not treating what needs to the be there.
• Corruption can vast diminished can be curbed.
• Many has been determined many who had determined that that what that had done was a failure.

Key Factors in Combating Corruption

• Corruption is based off society but can be controlled in a way to be better.
• Control arises about behavior of states from unrealistic
• Attempt to draft state agents can be a problem.

Corruption Control

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• Leaders have problems, the leader has choice of where to start for violation.

Leader Corruption

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Analysis of India's economic policies and political factors since 1968. Assesses challenges remaining despite significant poverty rate reduction. Key subjects include growth history, corruption, technological change and political economy.