Economic questions rarely get people involved. Exceptions are inflation and unemployment. In that sense, these aren't abstract at all and inflation has affected electoral outcomes, and might do so again.
The methodology for core State of the States (SOS) rankings remains unchanged. Variables across eight heads (agriculture, consumer markets, education, law and order, health, infrastructure, investment and macro economy) are aggregated to obtain scores and ranks for each state.
According to the Housing Skyline of India 2007-08, a study by research firm, Indicus Analytics, there will be a demand for over 24.3 million new homes for self-living in urban India by 2015.
A recent survey, conducted by two leading Indian economists who have excellent reputations as academics, Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari, for a German foundation, has ranked Gujarat as India's No. 1 state on its economic freedom index based on a series of parameters.
