Our root cause analysis of China’s economic growth is wrong. Even though China is a one-party authoritarian State, it is far more decentralised than India.
We simply do not know anyone who will not be corrupt. The purpose of a democracy is to build a system that is less prone to corruption by design because it is decentralised.
Paryavaran Bhawan, Vanijya Bhawan, and Urja Bhawan are among swanky new govt office buildings that have come up over past 10 years to house ministries away from Central Secretariat.
China’s single-party model enables inner party control, as an additional instrument, to ensure governance effectiveness across long implementation chains.
Not just financial reform and market development, India must also pay attention to fiscal empowerment of state and improvement in public administration.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
Biggest problem is democracy. Politicians have to first protect their chair before welfare of citizens. In china they don’t have to deal with it.