Here's a nice, and recent article, by Amartya Sen, comparing development in India and China: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/quality-life-

Here's a nice, and recent article, by Amartya Sen, comparing development in India and China: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/quality-life-india-vs-china/?pagination=false http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/quality... Sen wrote the book "Development as Freedom" after winning the 1998 Economics Nobel prize. He's known for the general observation that famines occur seldom in democratic societies because politicians are at a gross level accountable for outrageous mismanagement of resource allocation.