It's better to not frame this in terms of a specific country, lest it come across as if we're picking on India specifically.

Developing countries have structural reasons for why they are underdeveloped. This is a very complicated topic, and one for which there is no shortage of academic interest. I suggest starting from William Easterly's "The Elusive Quest for Growth".

I quote here from the book review MIT Press:

> What is necessary for growth is that government incentives induce investment in collective goods like education, health, and the rule of law

> This is a very complicated topic, and one for which there is no shortage of academic interest. I suggest starting from William Easterly's "The Elusive Quest for Growth

What's Easterly's qualifications? Has he ever successfully improved the economy of a developing country? I'd rather learn what LKY or Park Chung Hee or heck even Deng Xiaoping or Pinochet had to say.