Health and education access is the only fix for India's wealth concentration
Ashok Bhattacharya (A.K. Bhattacharya) · Modi Govt Vs Raghuram Rajan, 1991 Finance Team, & India’s Brain Drain Challenge I A.K. Bhattacharya · May 3, 2024 · at 41:48
A.K. Bhattacharya, author and Business Standard Editorial Director, discusses solutions to wealth disparity and capital concentration with host Siddharth Ahluwalia.
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“And the only way to make sure That it does not get concentrated like this is to enable ordinary citizens, ordinary Indians to have the best access to health and education, which will make them not in this maybe generation, but the next generation will be able to be aspire for to become what you said, another Alain Mittal or another, you know, Mukesh Ambani or another industrialist. So I think the key element is how do you strengthen the resources, the human resources by beefing up health and education system. If that happens, I would say that this inequity or inequitable growth that you refer to probably can be handled over a period of maybe 20 years or so.”
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