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Causes of Disparity
Globalisation ,
Liberalisation
GDP growth:
Stunning economic (average % p.a.)
performance
Growth rate > 8% 1900-1950: 1.0%
$ 145 billion forex 1950-1980: 3.5%
reserve from $ 1 billion
in 1991 1981-1991: 5.4%
Production of
Foodgrains for 1 billion 1992-2002: 5.9%
people 2003 onwards: 8.6%
Abundant human
resource, S&T, Skill, IT
Along with economic
growth, international
recognition,
respect and
‘Bangalore may be the abiding
metaphor of the best selling
Indian narrative in globalization
but at the same time the cruel
reality of Bihar also can not be
wished away’.
- Aroon Purie, the man behind the India Today magazine
empire
Home of 40% of the world’s poor
300 million people earning < $1 a day