‘Anti-national’ thoughts | The Indian Express

‘Anti-national’ thoughts | The Indian Express

Written by Pranab Bardhan |Updated: April 10, 2019 12:05:38 am

The writer is professor of graduate school at the department of economics, University of California, Berkeley.

‘Anti-national’ thoughts

Whichever party wins the election, the real long-term challenge is to stem the rot of institutional foundations.

The current government has no doubt had some laudable economic achievements, but actual progress in much of these has not matched the constant barrage of official hype. (PTI Photo)

The headlines say that the ruling party manifesto emphasises nationalism (“nation first”), and, on the economic front, it will aspire to make India the third-largest economy in the world by the end of the next decade, to make it reach the list of top 50 countries in the ranking of Ease of Doing Business, and repeats the old promise of doubling farmers’ income by 2022.