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Inclusive Growth


Inclusive growth is a growth process which yields broad based benefits and ensures equality of opportunity for all. Inclusive growth is essential for sustainable growth and impartial allocation of wealth.
India is the seventh largest and second most populated developing economies of the world. However, there are regional imbalances in the growth process leading to intra regional disparities and widening per capita income across states. The poverty ratio being so high is a major issue despite genuine growth.
The macro level suggestions like better financial regulations, opening FDI, trade liberalization, tax reforms, privatisation, providing social safety, reorientation of public expenses, and lawful and political reforms are helpful in leading policy negotiations for encouraging quick inclusive growth whereas in microlevel, reducing income and non - income associated unfairness, developing infrastructure, education, healthcare, women's empowerment, access to markets , role played by civil society organisations, accountability and good governance can help accelerate poverty reduction.
Inclusive growth is to be achieved so as to reduce poverty and other social and economic inequality. In respect to this, the Planning Commission have made inclusive growth as a goal in the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012).
The elements of inclusive growth are-
* Poverty Reduction
* Employment generation
* Equal distribution of income
* Agriculture Development
* Industrial Development
* Protecting the environment
* Social Sector Development
* Reduction in regional disparities
Good governance, better education, decentralisation, reducing the share of informal sector, improvement in infrastructure and energy can be the key levers for a better inclusive growth in India.

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