PC INDIA with an advanced Asian "Tiger" style economy.

WILDGEESE

Gone Fishin'
Apologies if this has been done before.

Inspired by an earlier thread I did regarding India becoming the 2nd "Arsenal of Freedom" and having a Japanese post war boom as a consequence.

With a POD no earlier than 1950, put in to place events or decisions that would allow India to have a modern "Tiger" style economy by the year 2000?

Regards filers
 

Fenlander

Banned
Apologies if this has been done before.

Inspired by an earlier thread I did regarding India becoming the 2nd "Arsenal of Freedom" and having a Japanese post war boom as a consequence.

With a POD no earlier than 1950, put in to place events or decisions that would allow India to have a modern "Tiger" style economy by the year 2000?

Regards filers

The most important thing to do that you need to kill the Licence Raj as quickly as possible. To quote yon Wikipedia,
India had started out in the 1950s with:[6]

  • high growth rates
  • openness to trade and investment
  • a promotional state
  • social expenditure awareness
  • macro stability
However, by the 1980s, the country was left with:[6]

  • low growth rates
  • closure to trade and investment
  • a licence-obsessed, restrictive state
  • inability to sustain social expenditures
  • macro instability, indeed crisis

With a PoD of 1950 this is tough, but it should be doable. Breaking the INC's near-stranglehold on the Lok Sabha earlier would be a good start. Another idea would be keeping the Gandhi family the hell away from anything resembling political power.
 
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