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Economic growth, output expansion and long-run growth performance.

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Manish Sisodia says India could remain a developing country unless education is better connected to earning opportunities. National policy and recent Economic Surveys independently identify vocational education and the skills-to-jobs mismatch as real challenges, but the evidence does not show that education reform alone can deliver developed-country status.

Manish Sisodia links a developed India to job-connected education; official policy also identifies a skills mismatch
Open Post: Manish Sisodia links a developed India to job-connected education; official policy also identifies a skills mismatch

Travelling Mantra Manoj says after visiting China that India is “at least 100 years behind” and could fall further back. The century figure has no stated benchmark and is rhetorical, but World Bank data support a substantial underlying gap: China’s 2025 nominal GDP per person was about five times India’s, while India’s own human-development indicators…

Travelling Mantra’s ‘100 years behind China’ claim points to a real development gap, not a measurable century
Open Post: Travelling Mantra’s ‘100 years behind China’ claim points to a real development gap, not a measurable century

Angela Merkel did credit Manmohan Singh’s 1991 reforms with helping enable almost three decades of Indian economic growth, and contemporary records confirm a major shift in trade, licensing, investment and finance under the Rao government. But growth was not literally uninterrupted or caused by one person: later reforms, investment and global conditions mattered, and economists…

Open Post: India’s 1991 reforms helped reshape long-run growth; the one-man ‘uninterrupted’ story is too simple