Abstract
This paper is an extended review article to discuss the currently fashionable opinion among the neoliberal scholars as well as influential policy makers and advisers that the ‘Gujarat Model’ of growth is something that ought to be emulated by the rest of India in its quest for rapid economic transformation. A close and careful reading of the articles included in the volume brings out both the exclusionary and inequalizing nature of otherwise high overall economic growth in Gujarat and its less than admirable performance in human and social development indicators. Gujarat is not one of the worst performing states in India either by growth, poverty reduction or social or human development. But certainly it is not in the top league in any of these except aggregate economic growth. By a careful comparison of Gujarat and Kerala the paper also seeks to demolish the claim made by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya that Gujarat has outperformed in Kerala not only in growth but also in social sector development.
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