democracy and development related to each other explain
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There is a thought that Democracy is a development friendly political system. As in democratic system the authority of the state is elected by the people of that state. So it is expected that the elected authority will make development for his people.
But in practical, it has been experienced that some non-democratic countries is achieving more development than that of other democratic countries. So the real thing is that there is no relation between development and democracy. Development of a country depends on the intention the government, running the administration of that country and approach of people of that country, how they react against the decisions, taken by the government. For example two neighbour countries India & China, in spite of being a non democratic state, China has emerged as a super power in the World. On the other hand India, the largest democracy in the World is still struggling for becoming a developed nation.
So it can be said that sometimes democracy goes against the development and it happens in courtesy of ‘popularism’. In many times, government of a democratic country misuses the wealth of country for earning popularty as the popularty earns vote.
A report has revealed that India's spending on Research & Development interms of percentage of GDP has been stagnant at 0.6% to 0.7% in the last two decades which is well below that in major nations such as the USA (2.8%), China (2.1%), Israel (4.3%) & Korea (4.2%).
Democracy as we know is a government by the people of the people and for the people. a democracy has welfare as its primary aim. Thus it will work for development. In India too we have witnessed how the government works for all sections of the people. Adequate opportunities are provided for the backwards to come at par with the others. Economic progress is also achievable through democracy. Citizen are given the freedom to pick any job or start any business, forming trade unions is legals. Thus when cordial working conditions are provided revenue generation will be more too. Indeed, for decades India had only 2 to 3 percent annual growth rate. But that has changed. Once the democratic Indian government embarked upon implementing market-oriented reforms, the country achieved rate of 8 to 9 percent a year.