Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Manmohan Singh can still go out with a bang

Are things looking gloomy for India? The country’s annual economic growth rate slipped to 5.3 percent in the first quarter of this year, the slowest in a decade, and a poll out last week shows analysts slashing their growth forecasts for this year.
Yet India remains an incredibly promising economy.
First, India overall is still very poor, and so there’s a lot of room to move up. Its per capita GDP is still only about a third that of China’s, and it still has huge advantages in terms of low cost of labor; it has a long way to go before it even becomes a middle income country.
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