Diversifying the economy: Lessons from India

Friday, January 27, 2017

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For Botswana, India offers a real-time look at a country diversifying its economy from its traditional rural agricultural heart. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, was recently in New Delhi and put his finger on the pulse of change

Arriving in New Delhi in the middle of a smog crisis was not the best start to developing an article on how India is transforming its economy away from a reliance on agriculture and towards services.

The smog, so thick one could not see the stars at night, was caused by farmers in neighbouring states to the capital burning stubble in the old, frowned upon ‘slash and burn’ method of preparing fields.

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