Wealth Creation: The Invisible Hand Supported by the Hand of Trust

  • Post-liberalisation, Indian economy supports both pillars of the economic model advocated in our traditional thinking.
  • Survey illustrates enormous benefits accruing from enabling the invisible hand of the market.
  • Exponential rise in India’s GDP and GDP per capita post-liberalisation coincides with wealth generation.
  • Survey shows that the liberalized sectors grew significantly faster than the closed ones.
  • Survey posits that India’s aspiration to become a $5 trillion economy depends critically on:
    • Strengthening the invisible hand of the market.
    • Supporting it with the hand of trust.
  • Strengthening the invisible hand by promoting pro-business policies to:
    • Provide equal opportunities for new entrants.
    • Enable fair competition and ease a doing business.
    • Eliminate policies unnecessarily undermining markets through government intervention.
    • Enable trade for job creation.
    • Efficiently scale up the banking sector.
    • Introducing the idea of trust as a public good, which gets enhanced with greater use.
  • Survey suggests that policies must empower transparency and effective enforcement using data and technology.