Growth matters: Lessons from the Gujarat model

Almost a year ago, on December 13, 2012, I published an article in The Indian Express ('The Modi metric') with the explicit goal of evaluating Gujarat's development in terms of both economic growth per se and improvements in living standards. Gujarat was just about to go to the polls, and there had been constant (and continuing) debate about whether, under Narendra Modi's stewardship, the much-hyped economic growth had also delivered results to the poor. Of particular interest was the improvement in the lives of the Muslims.

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