Analyzing the economic divergence between China and India since 1950
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David Oks
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This article analyzes the economic divergence between China and India since 1950, exploring why China achieved rapid economic growth and industrialization while India lagged behind. It examines historical, political, and economic factors including different development strategies, governance models, timing of market reforms, infrastructure investment, manufacturing focus, and demographic transitions. The piece contrasts China's authoritarian state-led capitalism with India's democratic but slower-moving approach, and discusses how each country's unique circumstances shaped their respective economic trajectories over the past seven decades.
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· 3 pulledIn the year 1950, much as today, the two largest countries in the world by population were China and India.
Both of them were among the very poorest places on earth. And both of them were about to spend decade
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