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Reality check on India's economic growth: Planning to fail or failing to plan
by Rajendra K. Bera, Sunish Raj, Hiten Balsari
ISBN 978-3-8484-2573-0, Paperback

Bera, R.K., Raj, S., and Balsari, H., Comments on the Draft Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan of India, Acadinnet Commentary 2011-01, December 2011. Also as SSRN id 1968313, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1968313

Their comments are available at:

Rajendra K. Bera, Sunish Raj, Hiten Balsari

When worldwide, universities are transitioning to become engines of economic growth, the self-created domestic disaster of India's education system going into a free-fall in terms of academic standards and the irrelevance of the education it provides has been India's biggest bottleneck in realizing its economic growth potential. In terms of knowledge creation, scientific discoveries, technological inventions, and even in imparting education at all levels, there has been a rapid decline in quality in the past two decades, leaving the country with an acute shortage of employable, university educated knowledge workers. Skill gaps are alarmingly high where higher-order skills are needed. Skill shortages in most industries continue to plague the growth of the Indian economy. Given these ground realities, rather than becoming the world's third largest economy by 2030, it is likely that India's economy will head towards a meltdown by then.

ISBN 978-3-8484-2573-0, Paperback

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Rajendra K. Bera, Sunish Raj, Hiten Balsari

In this critique of the Planning Commission's draft Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan, the authors focus on two key aspects of the Indian economy - its rapidly declining education system, and its lack of a robust intellectual property system. If India is to maintain its economic growth these two systems must be overhauled thoroughly and quickly. We reason, barring a miracle, that India has no reasonable chance of becoming a country with the third largest GDP in the world in the coming two decades.

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