THE ELUSIVE BALANCE

The Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has inter-alia,resolved to "  foster an inclusive, innovative, and sustainable growth order ".A  Command economy like China, predicated on the power of the proletariat, did touch higher base growth sooner than normal democratic regimes.To  achieve sustained and elevated levels progress now on,individual entrepreneurship has to set the pace.And that comes with a price-greater personal freedom and broader reforms that involve less of the government. Decades earlier, a powerful USSR tardy on reforms saw its  powerful party oligarchs under the Hubris of totalitarian power, ruining the economy and dividing up a  vast republic. China clearly intends to learn from history.At this  bivouac of  reorienting national directions, it could attempt to keep the nation together by a calculated tempering of its " growth-at all costs " policies .But inclusiveness ,political and economic , does not come easy as even Obama struggles over broad based healthcare and taxing the super rich in his  200 year old epitome of democracy.Will China have the patience to seed socio- political  inclusiveness in a soil driven barren for decades by ideological  over saturation,remains to be seen.Our own nation is going through an uncertain mix of growth and inclusiveness, trying to strike the elusive balance between the two!.

          llll       R.NARAYANAN ,GHAZIABAD . lllllllll

( Published Business Standard NOV 21 )

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