Rural India tops consumption charts

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is often accused of playing the party-pooper in urban India. But the current economic mood in rural parts of the country, it appears, is the best in the past 20 years. During the UPA government’s second term in office, rural India’s consumption expenditure grew at a faster pace than urban India’s — for the first time since 1991. From 2007-08 to 2011-12, the monthly per-capita consumption... 

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