HPAS/Allied Mains 2022 Answer Writing Challenge Day 210: Model Answer

Question: Examine the relationship between inclusive growth and sustainable development. (8 marks/120 words)

Answer:

According to United Nations Development Program (UNDP), inclusive growth is “the process and the outcome where all groups of people have participated in the organisation of growth and have benefited equitably from it”.

The main elements of the inclusive growth:

• Social inclusiveness: Ensure equity principles to share the opportunities for development; Include the knowledge of all; Build targeted capacity building to enable effective participation; Enhance protection for the poorest.
• Ecological inclusiveness: Adopt eco centric limits from local to global level; Equitably share rights, responsibilities and risks; Build resilience and adaptive capacity; Involve all stakeholders.
• Relational inclusiveness: Ensure that public goods and merit goods do not become privatized or securitized; there should not be the concentration of wealth.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The sustainable development has ecological, social and economic aspects and the main challenge lies in optimizing these three aspects.

The relationship between SDG goals and Inclusive growth:

Goal 1: end poverty everywhere; Goal 2: end hunger/ malnutrition; Goal 5: end inequality between sexes; Goal 6: universal access to water and sanitation; Goal 7: universal access to energy; Goal 8: employment for all; Goal 9: inclusive industrialization; Goal 10: reduce inequalities; Goal 15: sustainable livelihoods; Goal 16: inclusive institutions.

The SDG goals helps in achieving inclusive growth.

a) enhance the level of protection for the poor and the small-scale sector, and

b) to a limited extent include all in the opportunities for development.

c) focus on building resilience and adaptive capacity.

d) promote rule of law and equality of access.

However, they do not address the logic of market based economic growth, safeguard public goods from privatization and securitization, or ensure downward accountability.

Conclusion: so, we can say that inclusiveness and sustainability are interwoven in the concept of inclusive growth. Further, there is need of  optimizing ecological, social and economic aspects of development.