It’s Gujarat, not just Modi

A new study conducted by Columbia University, New York, in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, brings a lot of clarity with regard to some aspects of growth and development in Indian states. Broadly, Prof Arvind Panagariya of Columbia University and Pinaki Chakraborty of NIPFP have empirically established that the fastest growing states between 1993-94 and 2009-10 were Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, and each of these states had brought down poverty ratios by 15 to 23 percentage points during this period.

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