The state of the Indian economy: Please look at trends since the beginning of the 1990s – and not focus on only the downturn being experienced by India as a result of COVID-19.Post one brief comment in response to each of the 4 questions:1) How well is India faring vis-à-vis other South Asian countries on economic and social parameters?2) How is India faring in the economic and social race with China?3) If you were to assess India’s social and economic performance since the start of the 1990s, what grade (A to D) would you give India?4) What are 3-4 factors holding back India’s socio-economic performance?Readings for Pre-Read AssignmentThe World Bank (2016), “Pathways to Reducing Poverty and Sharing Prosperity in India Lessons from the Last Two Decades” by Urmila Chatterjee, Rinku Murgai, Ambar Narayan and Martin RamaJunaid Kamal Ahmad Florian Blum Poonam Gupta Dhruv Jain. India’s Growth Story. Policy Research Working Paper 8599. World Bank Group.Use any of the following databases provided by UN agencies to construct a picture of India’s economic and social performance vis-à-vis other countries.World Bank: https://databank.worldbank.org/home.aspxUNICEF: https://data.unicef.org/resources/resource-type/datasets/UNDP Human Development Report Office: https://hdr.undp.org/en/dataAn option could be to look at the tables at the end of the latest (i) UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children report; (ii) UNDP’s 2020 Human Development Report; or (iii) The World Bank’s World Development ReportThe State of the World’s Children– On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health.Human Development Report 2020World Development Report 2021: DATA FOR BETTER LIVEShttps://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2021Government of India. Economic Survey 2021-22. Chapter 1 and Chapter 10. Ministry of Finance.Comments from CustomerDiscipline: Social Policy (India)
