"A growth rate of 6.5 per cent is not a moment of celebration. It means that India is stuck in the lower-middle income trap without the ideas or the intrepidity to break out. It is a time for summoning Manmohan Singh-like courage," Chidambaram posted on X.
Noting that India's GDP growth for 2024-25 is expected to be 6.4 per cent as per government data, the Congress on Thursday said that the Modi government is taking India into the "middle-income trap, which will make us uncompetitive, underproductive, and unequal".
Drawing on lessons of the past 50 years, the World Development Report 2024 finds that as countries grow wealthier, they usually hit a "trap" at about 10 per cent of annual US GDP per person--the equivalent of USD 8,000 today.
India needs to strive to be a USD 30 trillion economy by 2047 with a per capita income of USD 18,000 per annum to become a developed economy, NITI Aayog has said in an approach paper 'Vision for 'Viksit Bharat @2047'
Beijing [China], October 4 (ANI): China's rights abuses and bad reputation of its tech companies have resulted in creating a negative business environment that is holding back China in the middle-income trap.