Why Did China Get Rich, but India Didn’t?

In 1990, the average person in India was a little richer than the average person in China. Today, China is about five times richer. Two neighbors with more than 1.4 billion people each, independence and revolution just two years apart, both among the poorest countries on Earth. So why did China get rich, while India didn't? Is it just that a dictatorship gets things done faster than a democracy? The history says otherwise. From Nehru's License Raj and Mao's Great Leap Forward to a secret pact in a tiny village called Xiaogang, the rise of Shenzhen, India's 1991 gold crisis and the software boom, this is the story of how two giants made very different choices, and why the real answer starts with schools, health and women at work. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Two giants, one huge gap 2:21 Back to the starting line 4:40 Copying the Soviet Union 7:38 Mao's China: catastrophe and a hidden floor 11:32 Xiaogang, Deng and the factory boom 20:10 India's turn: gold, software and missing factories #China #India #History #Economics #Geography