QualityofLifeinIndiavsChina.docxVIP

Quality of Life: India vs. China HYPERLINK /contributors/amartya-sen/ Amartya Sen HYPERLINK /issues/2011/05/12/ MAY 12, 2011 ISSUE 1. The steadily rising rate of economic growth in India has recently been around 8 percent per year (it is expected to be 9 percent this year), and there is much speculation about whether and when India may catch up with and surpass China’s over 10 percent growth rate. Despite the evident excitement that this subject seems to cause in India and abroad, it is surely rather silly to be obsessed about India’s overtaking China in the rate of growth of GNP, while not