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Presented by

Group No.9Sumeet Mittal(171)K. Naresh Kumar(172)

Ashish Sharma(173)Gaurav Kumar Bhut(174)

Anaurag Nair(175)

Shashank Sharma(176)

- AMARTYA SEN


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TRUE MEASURE OF NATIONAL

SELF-WORTH Two issues in India :

i) Basic lack of involvement how growth happens.ii) No inclusive growth.

Inclusive growth is when the labour force is educated

and has adequate health.


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WEALTH OF NATIONS Huge economic growth is not a complete growth of a

nation.

Depends on how the economy helps to improvehuman capability.

Countries like Mexico, Brazil, Singapore and Chinastrengthened their investments for inclusive growth

without waiting to become rich.Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations in

1776 discussed about growth of human capability.


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ASIAN WAY

Smithian position of humancapability was articulated in1860s in Japan by Takayoshi,

one of the leaders of the Meijirestoration , who was unaware

of Adam Smith. Asian countries like Japan ,Singapore which were

economically backward than

India some decades back aredeveloped ones as they

addressed these responsibilitiesof human capability.


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SINCE THE LATE 1950s

At a party for Sen inKolkata, Jyoti Basu, thenWest Bengal ChiefMinister, told him that hisideas hadnt evolved, thathe was still saying almostexactly the same thing ashe was saying in the 50s.

Look, the only thing I plead inmy defence is that the

problems havent changed. Ifyou had solved them Id have

stopped saying these thingstoo!


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Evolving views, or the lack thereof. Jagdish

Bhagwatis allegation

Against globalization and liberalization, or support of the License Raj False allegation against me.

Supported the reforms when it was proposed by Manmohan Singh in the1990s

Important to restrict the counterproductive activities of the state andreplace it by constructive activities

Key issue highlighted was education and healthcare.

However, it couldnt be completed.


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Root cause analysis

One, ManmohanSingh probably

thought hecouldn't carry it

throughpolitically.

Second, heintended to carrythrough with it

in a second stage,to do it

sequentially,

later.

Three is that it'spossible that he

didn't getclearance fromNarasimha Rao.

WhenManmohan

Singh becamePM in 2004, he

said we'regoing to expand

schooling andinvest in

healthcarealong withother reforms.


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Contd.

There's been some movement on education.

Poverty numbers coming down is reflected ineducational indicators improving too.

Coalition government

Criticism for not doing enough

Defence of Manmohan Singh - Practical reasons


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Accusations at Amartya Sen & role of

media

Defends by saying he wants subsidy cutsPortrayed as

pro-subsidies

Strong advocate of it. But not his ideaLinked to the

Right to food bill

Doesn't cover remarkable successes in thesocial sector of Kerala, HP and TN

Overlook when seized by a political agendaMedia


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Regressive subsides - hard habit to break

Cut down NREGA and food security you could spend more on say, health.

Rather, why not cut down the subsidization implicit in electricity, whichabsorbs 2% of GDP.

Or cutting down fertilizer, diesel and cooking gas subsidies , duties onthe import of gold.

22% of population below-poverty line.

25% of population consists of the middle class.

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Sedition Charges Over Amartya Sen

Continuously criticized for influencing the masses byinciting resistance to lawful authority and tending tocause disruption or overflow of the govt by means ofspeech

But still not weathered by these statements

Ideology is that as an Indian still has a lot to do on

various public discourse


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Recent Controversy

He is upfront ,concerned for the masses and exercises hispower and is not an individualistic

E.g. Recent statement about Narendra Modi saying he is

not the right candidate for PM and does not possessecular credential had raised lot of storm in the recentpast

In defense He says that as a Majority member of India itis his duty, not merely right to speak about concern ofsociety.


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Aspect of Inequality in India

Comparison between India and Bric and other emergingeconomies differences are glaring.

Almost all countries are facing inequality but have donetremendously to work for underprivileged.


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China-Children have school to go.

Universal healthcare facilityBetter sanitation facility

Improvement in nourishment in children.

Brazil has public healthcare.

Combated public action removed hunger removedhunger.

Russia has benefitted from huge communistCommitment to education and fair degree of universalhealthcare that still remains.


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