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Comment: Economic liberalisation and uneven development among Indian States.

  • UPSC 2010
  • 20 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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Before 1991 the Centre decided where much of India's industry went: it issued licences, sited public plants and spread plan assistance by the Gadgil formula. Liberalisation handed that decision to private capital and to state governments competing for it. The argument here is that liberalisation amplified inherited differences rather than creating them, and that state…

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