{"id":10318,"date":"2020-12-09T16:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T10:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2021-01-09T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:26:19","slug":"our-attitudes-towards-life-work-other-people-and-society-are-generally-shaped-unconsciously-by-the-family-and-the-social-surroundings-in-which-we-grow-up-some-of-these-unconsciously-acquired-attitu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/our-attitudes-towards-life-work-other-people-and-society-are-generally-shaped-unconsciously-by-the-family-and-the-social-surroundings-in-which-we-grow-up-some-of-these-unconsciously-acquired-attitu\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Growth Needs to Accompany Distributive Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 28px; background-color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0Economic Growth Needs to Accompany Distributive Justice<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Introduction <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India is the second-most unequal country in the world, in terms of distribution of the wealth, where just 1 % Indians own about 58% of the wealth. It is a concerning statistic for a democracy and therefore a discussion on distributive justice becomes imperative.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Technically, economic growth refers to effective increase in production of goods and services in a country over a period of time, which may or may not mean qualitative improvement in living standards for all.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The concept of distributive justice refers to the allocation of goods and resources in a country to all the citizens in an equitable manner. There is a need to realize the difference between equal and equitable while discussing distributive justice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Main argument of the essay<\/strong>: India cannot hope to develop without developing its poor, which can only happen by aiming for distributive justice along with economic growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Body <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Goal of economic growth: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To achieve economic success by producing more goods and services per capita in a country over a period of time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Economic growth also aims to achieve higher rates of growth than previous periods, which shows that the economy is using the given resources efficiently and there is innovation in technology, production processes, management, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The concept of economic growth generally does not address the problem of unequal development. It looks at the quantitative aspect, not the qualitative one.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Goal of distributive justice:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To have a society without glaring inequalities in income, education, health, and living standards among its members.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Distributive justice aims to follow an ethical code wherein people are willing to share their wealth and compromise on individual economic growth so as to provide for the poor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is important to understand that exactly equal distribution of resources is not possible or desirable, but the concept aims at avoiding extremes of inequality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Need for reconciliation:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Distributive justice impacts the overall happiness and satisfaction levels of citizens in a country in a positive manner. Millions of Indians could be saved from daily misery if there is equitable distribution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chances of social unrest and revolution are drastically reduced if the citizens feel that there is no unreasonable concentration of wealth among few. Economic underdevelopment is cited as a reason for terrorism and Naxalism in India; this could be tackled with distributive justice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The success of a democracy is not solely dependent on giving equal political rights to all citizens, but also on giving equal opportunities of economic success and acquisition of resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Concerns in reconciliation:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Distribution of wealth can mean taxing the ultra-rich, which is an obstacle in the political economic environment of India, wherein many of the lawmakers themselves are rich.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Demonetization was an effort towards curbing black money and bringing money hoarders under government scrutiny. However, only a partial success and backlash against this move goes on to show that implementing distributive justice in India is an uphill task.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India&#8217;s diversity and complex social structure with caste system further creates impediments in implementing distributive schemes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a capitalist economy such as India, drastic efforts towards wealth redistribution may disincentivize wealthy capitalists and businesses, which in the end can hamper economic growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Therefore, efforts need to be gradual and can involve less disruptive practices such as ensuring equal opportunities in education, employment, etc. for the poor, rethinking of welfare schemes to make their impact effective, and overall pro-poor outlook of government policies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Conclusion <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The concepts of economic growth and distributive justice have the distinct goals of material expansion and qualitative improvement in lifestyle, respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Despite differences, it is important to reconcile the goals of these two concepts in order to ensure peace, ethical growth, and overall development of India as a democracy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Given past experience, it is clear that achieving distributive justice along with economic growth is difficult in India, but a thoughtful approach towards the process can yield positive results. India can look at experiences of other countries such as Norway and Denmark, which have performed better in ensuring equality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Notes <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Keywords:<\/strong> economic growth, distributive justice<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is a relevant topic in India&#8217;s context and holds importance in the discourse on policymaking, so aspirants are expected to be aware of the debates surrounding it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Make sure to propose arguments from multiple angles philosophical, economic, political, etc.-to write a holistic essay.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Examples of experiences of other countries and from Indian states can be given to add weight to your arguments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Economic Growth Needs to Accompany Distributive Justice\u00a0 Introduction India is the second-most unequal country in the world, in terms of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10321,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions\/10321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}