India's current five-year plan, the tenth (reform has by no means done away with all vestiges of socialism), began in April 2002 and aims at a further increase in the annual average growth rate, to 8%, the minimum needed to provide jobs for a growing population.

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It has a population of about 65m and the mainland part of it has enjoyed an astonishing average annual rate of economic growth of around 17% for the past quarter-century.

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