 Kuznets’ tension in India: Two episodesSaon Ray and
Sabyasachi Kar ()
No 386, IEG Working Papers from Institute of Economic Growth Abstract: Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two distinct episodes over the post-independence period. We characterize these two episodes as ‘inclusion without growth’ and ‘growth without inclusion’. We argue that the trade-off in each of these episodes is explained by political factors and the economic ideology that evolved during this period, which in turn, drive the policy regimes and economic outcomes. We draw a few conclusions. First, economic ideology played an important role in driving structural transformation in India. Second, structural transformation did not lead to manufacturing-based industrialization in India due to increasing political competition. Third, the lack of manufacturing growth intensified the dilemma in the Indian context. Finally, we predict three alternative trajectories that structural transformation and inclusiveness may follow in this country. Keywords: developers dilemma; India; inequality; Kuznets; policy; politics; structural transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published as Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, 2020, pages 1-28 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:awe:wpaper:386 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in IEG Working Papers from Institute of Economic Growth |
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