Thread by @dravirmani

#India, #Vietnam and #Bangladesh are Lower Middle Income countries (#LMIC), rest are #MIC or #UMIC (U=upper)

2/ltp Is #India at the #Lewis #Turning #Point?

https://twitter.com/davidfickling/status/1359757717083017222

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🤯