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The Hindu rate of growth is a derogatory term referring to the low annual growth rate of the planned economy of India before the liberalisations of 1991, which stagnated around 3.5% from 1950s to 1980s, while per capita income growth averaged 1.3%.〔(Redefining The Hindu Rate Of Growth ). The Financial Express〕 The word "Hindu" in the term was used by some early economists to imply that the Hindu outlook of fatalism and contentedness was responsible for the slow growth. The later economists attribute the rate to the Government of India's protectionist and interventionist policies (see Licence Raj), rather than to a specific religion or to the attitude of the adherents of a particular religion. The term contrasts with South Korea's Miracle on the Han River and the Taiwan Miracle. While these Asian Tigers had similar income level as India in the 1950s, exponential economic growth since then has transformed them into developed countries today. The economy of India has been growing at rate of around 6-8% since economic liberalisation began in the 1990s. ==Term== The term was coined by Indian economist Raj Krishna〔Indian Economy: Dutt & Sundaram〕〔http://planningcommission.gov.in/aboutus/speech/spemsa/msa033.pdf〕 It suggests that the low growth rate of India, a country with mostly Hindu population was in a sharp contrast to high growth rates in other Asian countries, especially the East Asian Tigers, which were also newly independent. This meaning of the term, popularised by Robert McNamara, was used disparagingly and has connotations that refer to the supposed Hindu outlook of fatalism and contentedness. As noted politician and journalist Arun Shourie has pointed out (see quote below), the so-called "Hindu rate of growth" was a result of socialist policies implemented by staunch secular governments and had nothing to do with Hinduism. With the rise of social media in India, a parallel term now being used is the ''Nehruvian rate of growth'',〔http://www.livemint.com/Money/76l5Klit1s3nWARdEbD4LI/The-Nehruvian-rate-of-growth.html〕 as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundations of Nehruvian Socialism which is held responsible for the low growth. Nehru himself was a secular atheist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hindu rate of growth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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