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"Congress never followed up on promises for backward classes with action": Amit Shah in MP

In a direct address to the audience, the Union Home minister said, "The Congress made many tall promises on the welfare of the backward classes but never followed up their words with action. However, after you made Modi-ji the Prime Minister in 2014, he gave constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes." ....

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Bridging, not bonding, for regional growth | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal


Francesca Borgonovi, Elodie Andrieu
Social scientists have long recognised that economic growth is not just a function of physical or human capital, but also of the ability of the population to collaborate and exchange knowledge. Places where people trust each other and form dense informal and formal networks can sometimes prosper and grow well beyond expectations. Putnam  et al. (1993) classically explained differences in governance quality and prosperity between Northern and Southern Italy drawing on the stronger and sounder civic traditions of the North of the country. Later, Putnam argued that the erosion of social capital in the US represented a challenge for democracy and wellbeing (Putnam 2000). Various subsequent studies have shown that variations in social capital explain differences across regions (Beugelsdijk and Schaik 2005, (Storper 2013) and even in the spread of Covid-19 (Bartscher et al., 2020). It therefore comes as no surprise that the World Bank, the OECD ....

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