Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Monday dismissed arguments that inequality could be reduced without high economic growth and cautioned against backlash from the people due to lop-sided development.
Releasing the India Social Development Report-2018 on ‘Rising Inequalities in India’, prepared by the Council for Social Development, Singh, considered the father of liberalisation in India as finance minister in 1991-96, said meaningful solution to the problems of poverty, ignorance and disease, which still inflict millions of Indians, could be found only in the framework of a rapidly expanding economy, which should go hand in hand with positive government intervention.
Singh,