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Privatisation of economy can often result in growing social inequalities, exploitation and corruption. How far are these fears justified in the Indian context?

  • UPSC 1991
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Voiced at the very start of India's reforms, these three fears deserve to be tested separately rather than answered together. Three decades of evidence support them unevenly: the charge of inequality is substantially proved, exploitation partly so, and corruption has changed form more than it has changed scale.

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  • Inequality: substantially justified
  • Exploitation: partly justified
  • Corruption: a change of form rather than a simple increase
  • Conclusion

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