Module 8: An argument for modernization and development
  Lecture 24: Inclusive Growth: Renewed Support to Model of Development
 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISE

  • In which Five Year Plan of India the concept of inclusive growth appeared first? What was the context?

  • Elaborate the concept of inclusive growth?

  • Why did a fast economic growth during the post-reform period in India not reach the poor and other vulnerable sections of society?

  • What should be the primary targets of inclusive growth?

  • What needs to be done to bring up the economically and socially backward classes?

  • Read the first two chapters of the Eleventh Five Year Plan and develop your own critique of the concept of inclusive growth?

  • Suppose you are asked to rectify the errors made in the Eleventh Five Year Plan and come up with a better model of inclusive growth what would you suggest?

  • Indian planners have adopted the idea of inclusive growth? Do you find examples of application of this or similar ideas in any other country of the world? Compare the achievements of that country with India.

  • What should be our expectations from development in a developing country?

  • What is Ten-Point-Social-Charter for industries?

  • What are thirteen development targets for individual states in India? What is their connection with the idea of inclusive growth?