Congress has stronger economic development record than Modi’s BJP

It is now time to pull together all the analysis in this series of GDP, HDI, and economic inequality trends for Gujarat and India to see how BJP and Congress fare on economic development. Metric BJP performance Congress performance Advantage GDP growth India: 6.0%, 6 … Continue reading →

Economic inequality in India worsens under UPA

In the last few posts of this series, I have analyzed improvements in income and Human Development Index in India. This post focuses on economic inequality in India. Similar treatment of economic inequality in Gujarat under Narendra Modi can be found in another post. I will seek to address … Continue reading →

India HDI improves faster than China

I have been posting a series looking at the economic development performance of BJP and Congress, This post focuses on improvements in Human Development Index (HDI) in India and other comparable countries between under the UPA government. Similar analysis of the HDI improvements in Gujarat … Continue reading →

India’s growth gap with China narrowing

I have been posting a series comparing the economic performance of BJP and Congress governments. As part of this, I compared India's GDP growth rates since economic liberalization began in 1991 to other comparable countries including China. China has consistently grown faster than India for decades … Continue reading →

India’s GDP grew faster under UPA than NDA

In my previous posts in this series looking at the economic development performance of BJP and Congress, I have analyzed the performance of Gujarat under Narendra Modi. This post focuses on India's GDP growth rates under the Congress government since it took office in 2004. Similar analysis of … Continue reading →