#India, #Vietnam and #Bangladesh are Lower Middle Income countries (#LMIC), rest are #MIC or #UMIC (U=upper)
3/ltp More from @davidfickling
4/ltp Th only production sector which, as per Indian constitution (#States #list), is virtually exclusive responsibility of States, is #Agriculture & #Irrigation (next is infrastructure, with parts in concurrent list). Most of th credit & blame for it, thus rests on ea State Govt
5/ltp #Federalism Perhaps time has come to systematically weed out all Central govt projects, programs, laws, rules relating to #Agriculture and #Allied sectors & #Irrigation, which are in States list of Constitution, and make it clear that it's the responsibility of SGs, NOT CG
6/ltp Ignorance of development economists, about principle of #Subsidiarity, on which State, Concurrent & Union lists are based, is astounding: Expecting CG to spend on 4 sectors(Health, education, agriculture & urban infra) 90% of which are States' responsibility is 🤡ish🤯

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Our territorial claims are known by our map; Has the "Tibetan Govt in exile", which Indian hawks want India to recognize as the "Govt of Tibet", ever accepted in word or deed, that it's the true boundary between India and Tibet? Has any other country in the world (except Bhutan)?
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