Countries like India need to make policies based on reliable data to achieve sustainable growth: World Bank's Gill

20 Oct 2023 Evaluate

Expressing view over economic growth, World Bank chief economist Indermit Gill has said that middle-income countries like India need to make policies based on reliable data to get into the league of high-income nations in next 3-4 decades as achieving sustainable growth will become harder. He said to grow into higher-income countries, MCIs (Middle Income Countries) will have to reduce deficits in their mid-sized firms.

Gill pointed out that relatively few countries (31) have grown into high-income countries between 1990 and 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set an ambitious target of making India a developed nation by 2047. According to the World Bank, the world's middle-income countries (MICs) are a diverse group by size, population, and income level.

They are defined as lower middle-income economies -- those with a GNI (Gross National Income) per capita between $1,036 and $4,045; and upper middle-income economies -- those with a GNI per capita between $4,046 and $12,535. Middle-income countries are home to 75 per cent of the world's population and 62 per cent of the world's poor. At the same time, MICs represent about one-third of global GDP and are major engines of global growth. Countries with annual per capita income of over $12,000 are defined as high-income economies.

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