In reply to PeterL:
I post this link again because it has a very useful table containing hard stats as is. I quote again from the Honorary Professor at Icrier and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. Make sure you read the table!
"During the last five years while we have debated the new Bangalore airport, China has built quite a few new ones! Finally, how can we hope to close the economic gap with China when almost every second Indian child is malnourished?
"Let me put this bluntly: as an economy, we are simply not in China's league."
Another thread that I've posted before include more speculations, like this one - but I think these are also plausible:
"I do put some credence in the Chinese measurements as being comparable to or greater than European mean scores, because of the following convergent pieces of evidence:
1. Chinese coracialists have built technological economies on a country-scale in Singapore and Taiwan. Related groups like the Koreans and Japanese have likewise been successful. 2. The Chinese diaspora in the US (and elsewhere) has been very economically and academically successful numerous countries "So, with all this in mind, I think China has many advantages over India , including:
1. racial and religious homogeneity 2. no neighbor which is as hostile as Pakistan 3. a higher GDP and a higher growth rate 4. no particularly dysgenic trends in birth rate (given the homogeneity of China) 5. And, of course, the ability of the Communist party to push eugenics-genetic engineering " So will India catch China? Probably not."
PeterL
