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What are the features of economic development? Outline the social determinants and consequences of economic development in India.

  • UPSC 1982
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

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Growth adds to output; development changes the structure that produces it and the lives it supports. Indian sociology insists on that distinction because India has often had the first without enough of the second. The question has three parts — what development is, what socially produces it, and what it does in turn.

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  • Features of economic development
  • Social determinants in India
  • Consequences
  • Conclusion
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