India's growth story presents a striking paradox: it has achieved remarkable success in reducing extreme poverty, while high levels of wealth concentration continue to persist.
This is not merely a function of national or headline growth, but also state-level development trajectories.
This brief explains that India’s next development challenge is to build the state capacity needed to translate economic growth into sustained income gains and broader upward mobility: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/uneven-ascent-state-capacity-and-the-future-of-india-s-upward-mobility
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Uneven Ascent: State Capacity and the Future of India's Upward Mobility
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