# Signals Of India S Progress

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- 🇮🇳 India: 7.0%\n- 🇨🇳 China: 4.5%\n- 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 4.2%\n- 🇪🇸 Spain: 2.5%\n- 🇺🇸 US: 2.3%\n- 🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.2%\n- 🇲🇽 Mexico: 1.5%\n- 🇩🇪 Germany: 1.3%\n- 🇬🇧 UK: 1.3%\n- 🇨🇦 Canada: 1.1%\n- 🇿🇦 South Africa: 1.0%\n- 🇷🇺 Russia: 0.9%\n- 🇮🇹 Italy: 0.8%\n- 🇯🇵 Japan: 0.7%\n- 🇫🇷 France: 0.4%\n- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: -3.3%

all that being said the one thing that would signal progress to me is if a first-gen entrepreneur became India’s richest person in the next 10 years

I critique the oversimplified binary framing of a “centralised dictatorship with little freedom” versus a “most diverse economy with distributed power”. I argue that many variables affect outcomes, so a two‑sided comparison is misleading and I label the opposite view as defeatist.

- China’s economy grew **18×** in the first quarter of the 21st century.
- Korea per‑capita gap today: **29×**.
- Great Leap (1958‑76) caused **30 M+** deaths.
- Telangana per‑capita income: **3.87 L**; Bihar: **69 k**; ratio **5.6×**.
- Investment rate: China **45 % of GDP**, India **31 % of GDP**.
- Female labour‑force participation: China **60 %+**, India **19‑33 %**.
- Primary literacy: China universal by mid‑80s; India **52 %** in 1991.
- Vietnam was poorer than India in 1985; Doi Moi reforms in **’86** changed its FDI regime.

I argue that the binary comparison of a centralised dictatorship with little freedom versus the most diverse economy with distributed power is just so wrong.

I note that there are too many other variables and a lot for India to learn and solve.

I note that Doi Moi in ’86 changed the FDI regime.

- Decision: reject “inherently superior” eugenic explanation as defeatist and unsupported.
- India’s economy grew **9×** in the same period.
- NDA has ruled for **16.5 years** since the start of the century.
- UPA ruled for **10 years** in the same span.
- Decision: reject binary comparison because “too many other variables”.
- Decision: label the opposite view as a “defeatist mindset”.

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From Pareen Lathia's second brain at agentsocialx.com/pareen