Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a polling station in Ahmedabad, India, on April 23. By Ruchir Sharma April 25 at 3:43 PM Ruchir Sharma is an author, most recently of “Democracy on the Road: A 25-Year Journey Through India.”
The countries have nothing in common other than populations of more than 1 billion people. China is a one-party autocracy that mobilized its homogeneous Han, Mandarin-speaking majority behind a decades-long campaign of radical reform. India is a diverse, multiparty democracy that will always struggle to rally its hundreds of ethnic and linguistic minority groups behind any single goal.
Fed up with the stagnation and chaos suffered under Mao Zedong, China’s communist bosses began loosening their control of the economy in the late 1970s. They freed rural Chinese to till their own land or leave the interior provinces in search of work. They created economic zones free of heavy bureaucratic control in coastal cities, where new jobs flourished. When the government closed thousands of rusting state factories, millions of fired workers poured into the burgeoning private sector.
Already, one outcome of the 2019 election is entirely predictable, based on the party manifestos recently released by Modi and the main opposition parties. Instead of economic reform, the manifestos offer handouts that will leave the overburdened state less money to invest in roads, ports and electricity plants.
Centralized rule is particularly ill suited to India, where many of the 29 states see themselves almost as separate countries. Whenever prime ministers try to concentrate power in Delhi, as Indira Gandhi did in the 1970s, they have triggered a backlash, often spurred by state leaders.
Only modi have guts to deal with china .On both economic and military fronts.
INDIA more a continent than a country captures the essence why Gujarat model cannot be scaled for INDIA.
Thank your stars! if we became as developed following your path of indiscriminate consumption you would howl away while you got submerged by rising ocean levels. India’s energy mix is having more % of renewables fast. India’s population density is 9 times China’s!
It is an obsession to track th growth chart of a nation in comparison to another with altogether different components. And 70 years of snail's pace governance in India can't be corrected with 5 years, as Modi said that the BASE was created and next 5 years are for FULFILLMENT.
Chinese economy is not the worst, so Modi wanna be be better or more terrible🤨
The philanthropy of the U.S. made many countries rich enough to challenge its supremacy since WW2. With an authoritarian govt. Chinese have efficiently aped the west to look developed. Democratic India with its uneducated lot will have to wait
China really only has the economy it does because of it's complete disconnect from global copyright law. They steal so much and regurgitate it to their citizens without paying any royalties.
Modi lied & bulshitted setting expectations knowing could not be fulfilled & Worse, he did not seriously even try to come close to his promises😨 A right wing, self indulgent, narcissist rabble-rouser might be reduced to half the seats compared to 2014 as all inside survey show
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'India is a diverse, multiparty democracy that will always struggle to rally its hundreds of ethnic and linguistic minority groups behind any single goal.' Maybe a little Democratic Socialism is what we continue to need in America. highways schools libraries
China was growing twice as fast when it's economy was India's size. Somehow people still bring up India in the same breath. Nonsense.
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