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Oct 2022
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India Will Not Be The Next China... It W...

Economics Explained
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Up until 1990 India was slightly richer than China on a per capita basis, but since then China's economy has grown far faster than India's. In this episode we look at the structural issues in India's economy have thus far prevented it from achieving the same level of economic success as China.

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