Introduction to the Exercise of Entrepreneurial Skills Dealing With the Economic Challenges Thrown Up By the Process of Interaction between Democracy and Economic Development

By Praveen M Joshi

India, Poverty, Diversity of Religions, Languages, Ethnicity, Illiteracy, Various Forms of caste, religious , social and gender discrimination

 

The problems are inter-connected and we can effectively deal with them by orienting the exercise of our entrepreneurial skills to contribute constructively to a coherent and satisfactory answer, with a vision of the course for the future development of India. Our Entrepreneurial Efforts alone can significantly correct the markets and enhance the planning by the State.

What we need is an effective Exercise of Entrepreneurship to eliminate rapidly mass poverty and illiteracy. What we need is an effective Exercise of Entrepreneurship to overcome simultaneously various social barriers arising from caste, religion, and gender prejudices.

Market-oriented high growth in a globalizing world or bureaucratic state intervention with centralized planning cannot achieve this, if not coupled with Effective Exercise of our Entrepreneurial Skills aiming to achieve the elimination of poverty, illiteracy and the inhuman social barriers.

In clear, non-technical terms, based on economic reasoning and political analysis, this book provides this alternative vision, and some concrete steps needed to initiate the process. Such an alternative path of development is indeed feasible even within our political system despite all its shortcomings.

The exercise of our entrepreneurial skills alone can ensure that all citizens of India live with economic, social, and political dignity. The obstacles in the way of Effective Entrepreneurship driving the states and the markets towards realizing these humane objectives are our biggest challenges. Meeting these challenges are the compulsion of our democracy and the temper of our times. Let us explore the reasons why we never took up these challenges. The purpose of our intellect and its work is to be able to imagine and explore how an action plan for exercising entrepreneurial skills leading to self-employment ensuring economic, social, and political dignity be made feasible. This book does precisely that.