The duo argued that this was mostly the fault of an underfunded and underdeveloped welfare state, which has in turn contributed to a growing imbalance between rich and poor. In his own way, Sen also looked to the successful “tiger” economies of east Asia, but mostly because of the way that they grew rich by investing heavily in basic health and education, which in turn helped to provide social support to poorer workers as they moved from farms to factories and onwards into the middle class. Modern India, by contrast, more often looked like an economy in Latin America, with a weak social safety
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