Dr Naushad Forbes On Fulfilling India’s Economic Promise | Ep 5 | FED Dialogues

Growing up in a business household, Naushad Forbes read and heard about the gulf in living standards that separated countries in the league of South Korea, from India. That gulf, which was non-existent at one point in time – India’s per capita GDP was the same as South Korea’s in 1960 and slightly higher than China’s in 1990 – has since widened substantially, to the extent that today, China’s per capita income is six times that of India’s, while South Korea’s is 16 times more. Naushad explains what he believes it will take to catch-up in this hour-long conversation with Rahul Ahluwalia, founding director at Foundation for Economic Development (FED). Watch the full video below.

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