I live and work in a Tier 3 city in India. I generally find it more comfortable and liveable in (though perhaps a little too slow and boring). Anyway, one of t

I live and work in a Tier 3 city in India. I generally find it more comfortable and liveable in (though perhaps a little too slow and boring). Anyway, one of things that I've reading about and slowly beginning to align with is the massiveness of the unorganised sector in the country. Lots of transactions and activity takes place in a way that the central government and planning agencies don't have direct visibility into. To use a programming metaphor, it's a huge ball of legacy code with patches on top of patches on top of workarounds and special cases. Trying to systematically manipulate this is hard, to say the least. I'm not sure if the push to digital transactions, the demonetisation and other things will change this. I don't think it's likely but neverthless, it's an interesting thought exercise. One interesting podcast that recently discussed this is https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen/7954/demystifying-gdp/ https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen.... It specifically discusses GDP as a performance measure, what its limitations are and how those are relevant to India.