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India “Why Growth Matters”
A true bottom-up approach to development
Agenda India’s Development Focus
Before and After Rural Development
Economic Development through Agricultural Inventions
Government Programs
India’s Pioneers
Book Info
India’s Development Strategy
1. Economic Development through agricultural inventions that helps prevent food Insecurity.
2. Social Development through programs that focused on social inequalities through collaborative efforts regardless of race or gender and, class.
3. Basic Services water energy and technical support.
4. Improved Governance Programs (i.e. Aga Khan Rural Support Program is a development program geared towards the developing of rural India. Madhya Pradesh for example in 2004 suffered from great food insecurity and now has four main components to its rural development.)
Before and After of India’s Development
A girl carrying water in Pre-developed India
India’s Post Rural Development Water Wale
Economic Development
Through Agricultural Innovations
Just over half of India’s workforce is in agriculture which produces a majority
of the produced consumed by India and
accounts for 14% of their Gross Production Network
India’s Rural Development Aga Khan Rural Support Program
AKRSP was established in 1984 in three rural areas of Gujarat in the south of India. Gujarat are home to some of India’s poorest communities and the over use of India’s Appalachian areas have caused droughts throughout the region. As a result Food security in these areas are scarce. AKRSP has shown great improvement in In the past 10 years. According to Aga Khan Foundation; In 2004 Madhya Pradesh (rural area) had a great degree of food insecurity and in 2008 AKRSP resolved the Food crises through the implementation of government programing and funding.
India’s Pioneers
“Give people money and
jobs and they will invest in
their own health and education”
(Jagdish Bhagwati)
India’s Pioneers
Retired Chief Economist from the Asian
development Bank and is currently a Professor of Economics at Columbia
University
Indira Gandhi
Third Prime Minister of India until her
assassination in 1984
“A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow
from others”
(Indira Gandhi)
From one generation to the next!!!
Mahatma Gandhi Speech
http://youtu.be/_SakitCoNYc
“Why Growth Matters” How economic growth in India reduced poverty and
the lesson for other developing countries.
Authors of “Why Growth Matters”: Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya
For more Information on the ideas behind India’s development please visit tatacenter.mit.edu or read “Why Growth Matters” which is inclusive of pioneers contributions, India’s past and present data.
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