Ashish Kumar
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What India's spending patterns say about inclusive growth—and inequality in the country | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For a decade, India’s growth story came with an asterisk. The Indian economy expanded, poverty seemed to recede, and yet a nagging question hung over it all: was anyone other than those on the top rungs being lifted? Inequality, most assumed, was baked in. It was a permanent tax on the promise of high growth. India’s latest household consumption data tells a different story that deserves to be heard. Between 2011-12
District-wise GDP data will help but the execution of this idea is best left to Indian states | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for district-level GDP estimates, made at the 11th Niti Aayog Governing Council meeting, was welcome. For too long, Indian economic policymaking has been driven by aggregates that obscure as much as they reveal. But before enthusiasm outpaces architecture, one question must be settled: who produces these numbers, how and whose numbers count? The answer matters enormously. Getting
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