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Human development approach affirms that education and health-care growth are more important than economic growth. Discuss this issue in the light of post-liberalized Indian society.

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  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

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Post-1991 India is the sharpest available test of this proposition, because it produced three decades of high growth alongside social indicators that lagged countries India had overtaken in income. Amartya Sen and Mahbub ul Haq, who built the human development approach, would not put education and health instead of growth; they would say growth is…

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  • The capability argument
  • The Indian evidence since liberalisation
  • The states settle the argument
  • The counter-argument
  • Conclusion
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