Learn from India on devolution, give counties more resources

It markets itself as the ‘Incredible India’ perhaps because of the huge diversity of its 1.25 billion people and the vast, beautiful landmass that sits between three oceans.

Nearly 30 per cent of its people, some 270 million people, live below the poverty line, majority in extreme poverty. Although its huge $2.1 trillion largely agrarian economy grew at 7.4 per cent last year, the large population lowers it’s per capita income to slightly above Kenya’s, at $1,500.