Leaving The Bog

The need to embrace new policies in various sectors for faster growth is set out with clarity and evidence

The year 2020 has not been kind to India thus far. Slowing economic growth and a strained social fabric are now capped by a pandemic which is putting many lives, and even more livelihoods, in peril. For anyone wondering how we can deal with the economic doom and gloom, Arvind Panagariya’s new book, India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory could not have come at a better time. While the title feels appropriate for these times, the ‘lost glory’ actually harkens back to the first 1,800 years AD, for most of which India made up roughly a quarter of the world’s economy, as opposed to the paltry 5 or so per cent at present. India Unlimited presents the author’s case, backed extensively with data, evidence, and coherent arguments, on how we can grow faster and regain our spot as one of the world’s more successful economies.