India´s GDP Can Increase If Country Turns More Secular: Study
(WorldNews Business)

If India discards religious beliefs that perpetuate caste and gender inequalities, it could more than double its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth of the last 60 years in half the time, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of a new . Secularisation precedes economic development and not the other way around as is commonly believed, said the study, `Religious Change Preceded Economic Change In The 20th Century´, published in the journal Science Advances. The study used data from the World Values Survey, which mapped people´s changing values and beliefs, to estimate the importance of religion in the 20th (1900-2000) century. India stood 66th among 109 nations ranked by...