India's Unfinished Growth, 2004–2036
Rich Country,
Poor Citizens
India built fast. It is the fifth-largest economy, with roads, digital rails, toilets and power for nearly everyone.
It delivered slowly on what citizens feel: nutrition, learning, jobs, clean air and water, safety, dignity.
Seven parts and an interlude
What India built, what it left behind, the fault lines beneath, and what growth should buy next.
Part I · Ch. 1–10
Built Fast
How India became the fifth-largest economy.
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Part II · Ch. 11–20
Left Behind
What the boom did not deliver.
10 chapters →
Part III · Ch. 21–25
Who Gets What
The fault lines beneath the growth.
5 chapters →
Part IV · Ch. 26–29
The Young and the Old
India's demographic moment — and its risks.
4 chapters →
Part V · Ch. 30–34
The Land Pushes Back
Water, food and a warming planet.
5 chapters →
Part VI · Ch. 35–37
The World Outside
India's place in an unequal world.
3 chapters →
Part · Ch. 38
Interlude: The Bill
The cost of India's hardest problems.
1 chapter →
Part VII · Ch. 39–43
Growth into Development
What the next decade should buy.
5 chapters →
5th
Largest economy
2024
143rd
Of 191 countries in income per person
130th
Of 193 on the Human Development Index
≈5×
Growth of the economy, 2004–2024
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