The Judiciary Doesn’t Make the Top Ten

June 19, 2008

This Goldman Sachs report on 10 things India needs to do to achieve its potential (via) is pretty good. I have two quibbles with it, though.

  1. How come judicial reforms and clearing the backlog of cases didn’t make it to the list? I realise this is a subjective measure of value, but I would have though this was more important than increasing trade with neighbours or increasing the number of universities.
  2. Chart 18 on Page 17 is weird. Does the fourth category of cereals represent the weighted average of the first three categories (rice, maize and paddy), other cereals, or all cereals. Not that this distracts from the overall point of the graph, which is that agricultural productivity in India is pathetic. It’s just an irritating fog in an otherwise decent report.