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Article: India's annual growth could go down to 6 percent: Amartya Sen
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- The Hindustan Times
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- February 23, 2009
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Kolkata, Feb. 23 -- India's annual growth could go down to six percent or lower due to the economic recession, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said here Monday.
"Of course, it could go down. But I am not a fortune teller," Sen told reporters when asked whether the country's growth could go down to six percent or lower due to the slowdown.
However, Sen was confident that India's growth would never decline to the level of Japan, which registered a negative growth of 12 percent.
Sen, now the Lamont university professor at Harvard, felt that increasing internal demand was a way of tackling the economic sloth.
"To some extent that is happening. Because the government earlier wanted to reduce the ...