Why Growth Matters (40 page)

      
per capita expenditures,
72

Exports,
8
,
9
,
23
,
24
,
27
,
77
,
101
,
104
,
105
(fig.),
106
(table),
107
,
108
,
109
,
117
,
121
,
143

      
multifiber export quota,
110

Ezhavas,
76

Factories Act (1948),
112–113
,
117
,
123

Farmers,
54
,
127
,
184

      
farmer suicides,
81–85

Finance,
202

Finance Committee,
18

Financial Chronicle
,
36

Five-year plans,
8

      
First,
12
,
13–14
,
16–17
,
19
,
62–63

      
Second,
19

      
Fifth,
17

Floor-space index,
133

Food and Agricultural Organization,
169

Food Corporation of India (FCI),
144–145

Food inflation,
173

Food Safety and Standards Act (2006),
179

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI),
173
,
179

Food security,
128
,
153
,
165–175

Forbes
,
45

Foreign equity,
8

Foreign Universities Bill,
141

Forge, Bharat,
119

Forward castes,
37

Franke, Richard,
68–69

Frick, Henry,
52

Fruits,
17
,
67
,
167
,
172
,
174
,
183

Gandhi, Indira,
8
,
9
,
11–12
,
22
,
23
,
28
,
86

Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma),
1
,
2
,
27

Gandhi, Rajiv,
9
,
28
,
29
,
204

Gandhi, Sonia,
185
,
206

GDP,
12
,
30
(fig.),
31
,
62
,
183
,
185
,
205
.
See also
Gross state domestic product

Genetically modified seeds,
81
,
145
,
175

Germany,
103

Ghana,
65

Ghate, Chetan,
31

Gilded Age.
See under
United States

Gilded Age, The
(Twain and Warner),
51

Gini coefficient,
45
,
47
,
48–49
,
70

Global economy/globalization,
27
,
42
,
73
,
74
,
77
,
87
,
88
,
101
,
104
,
205

Global Hunger Index,
62

GNP,
12
,
23

Goa,
72

Golden Quadrilateral highway,
130

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
91

Grains,
8
,
67
,
144
,
145
,
152
,
153
,
165
,
167
,
169
,
172
,
175

      
leakages of,
171
,
173

Great Britain,
103
,
139

Great Recession,
19
.
See also
Crisis of 2008

Green Revolution,
85
,
95
,
174–175

Gross state domestic product (GSDP),
72

Gruere, Guillaume P.,
83–84

Gujarat,
38
,
57
,
69
,
84
,
117
,
126
,
127

      
health and education in,
78

      
life expectancy and infant mortality in,
79
(figs.)

      
literacy rates in,
70
(fig.),
74
,
75
(fig.),
78

Gulati, Ashok,
174

Gupta, Poonam,
49

Hammer, Jeffrey,
181

Haq, Mahbub ul,
21
,
22

Haryana,
47
,
73
,
127
,
144
,
163
,
174

Hasan, Rana,
43
,
44
,
106
,
107
,
119–120

Hazare, Anna,
205

Health issues,
3
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
21
,
23
,
67
,
69–70
,
78
,
88
,
113
,
133
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
152
,
153
,
154
,
155
,
160
,
168

      
allocation of health expenditures,
178
,
179

      
doctors with Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery (MBBS),
186–187
,
187
(table)

      
”Health for All: An Alternative Strategy,”
18

      
health-related human resources,
186–188

      
Health Survey and Planning Committee,
17
,
182

      
major illnesses,
180
,
183–186

      
oversight of health system,
188

      
preventive public health,
177–180

      
/files/04/77/99/f047799/public/private health expenditures,
72–73

      
routine health care,
180–183

rural medical providers (RMPs),
185
,
188

      
universal health coverage,
185–186

      
See also
Disease
;
Malaria
; Myths:
about health/education
;
Nutrition

Helú, Carlos Slim,
54

Highways/roads,
129
,
130–131

Himachal Pradesh,
126

Hindu
newspaper,
81

Hindus,
75
,
76

Hnatkovska, Viktoria,
50

Hong Kong,
135

Hospitals,
21
,
152
,
177
,
184
,
185
,
186
,
188

House of Commons,
36
.
See also
India
:
Parliament

Housing/shelter,
15
,
16
,
25
,
40
,
85
,
126
,
128
,
133
,
149
,
153

Howes, Stephen,
161

Hunger,
62
,
67
,
68
,
165
,
167
(fig.),
167
,
169

Hygiene,
178
,
179

IDA.
See
Industrial Disputes Act of 1947

Ignorance,
2

IKEA,
204

Imports,
8
,
42
,
86
,
90
,
118
,
121
,
128
,
173
,
201

Income,
11
,
20
,
24
,
36
,
44
,
45
,
46
,
61
,
68
,
96
,
139
,
181
,
186

      
and diet changes,
149
,
165
,
167

      
and labor emigration,
164

      
per capita income,
8
,
14
,
15
,
25
,
33
,
58
,
60
(table),
64
,
70
,
72
,
95
,
201

      
national income,
13
,
15
,
19

India,
65
,
78
,
79
(figs.)

      
Constitution,
17
,
39
,
111
,
189–190

      
diaspora of,
205–206

      
Environment Ministry,
175

      
independence of,
1
,
9
,
19
,
74
,
96

      
India–China growth comparisons,
61
,
206–208

      
Indo–US nuclear cooperation deal,
206

      
Ministry of Labor,
111

Parliament,
8
,
20
,
36
,
121
,
169
,
204

      
pessimism/optimism about future of economy,
202–208

      
rural/urban,
33
,
33
(fig.),
41
,
42
,
43–44
,
46
,
48
,
63
,
64
(fig.),
67
,
73
,
101–102
,
131
,
157
,
165
,
167
,
169–170
,
181
,
182
,
186
,
188
,
193
,
196

      
Supreme Court,
40
,
41
,
119

Indian Council of Medical Research,
63

Indian Institutes of Management,
140

Indian Institutes of Technology,
135
,
140

Indian Medical Council (IMC),
137

Indian School of Business (ISB),
140

India Shining agenda,
14

Indonesia,
19

Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) of 1947,
24
,
114–115
,
118
,
121–123
,
195–196

Industrial Employment (Standing Order) Act (1946),
113

Industry,
7
,
15
,
21
,
27
,
29
,
43
,
99

      
capital-intensive
products/enterprises,
98
,
104
,
106
,
107
,
108
,
109
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
163–164

      
informal/formal sectors in,
101
,
119
,
121
,
124

      
size of firms,
107–108
,
108
(fig.),
109
(fig.),
109
,
110
,
113
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
120
(fig.),
123

      
See also
Industrial Disputes Act of 1947
;
Labor
:
industrial workers
;

      
Manufacturing

Inefficiencies,
89
,
97
,
98
,
106
,
125
,
128
,
144–145

Inequality,
2
,
10
,
27
,
36
,
45–55
,
69
,
88
,
202

      
between/within states and among households,
47
,
48
(fig.),
49

      
measuring,
45
,
47

      
rural/urban,
46
,
48

Infant/child mortality,
16
,
58
,
59
(fig.),
60
(table),
60
,
64
,
70
,
71
(fig. 5.6),
78
,
79
(fig. 5.9),
177

Inflation,
160
,
173
,
203

Infrastructure,
110
,
117
,
120
,
128
,
129–133
,
149
,
174
,
193

      
urban,
132–133

Innovation,
135
,
175

Institutions,
3
,
44

Insurance,
8
,
11
,
53
,
113
,
153
,
154
,
155
,
185

      
group insurance,
183–184

Intellectuals,
9
,
12
,
90
,
205

Interest rates,
203

International Monetary Fund,
91

Internet,
95

Investments,
86
,
109
,
118
,
121
,
205