Indian values offer path to growth for all: PM at G20

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday outlined India’s vision for six new G20-led initiatives, including a global effort to dismantle the drug-terror nexus, a healthcare rapid response team, a traditional knowledge repository, an open satellite data partnership, and a critical minerals circularity initiative while calling for a fundamental rethinking of global development parameters at what was the first G20 Summit on African soil.

- Rahul Singh

Speaking at the opening session focused on inclusive and sustainable growth, Modi framed his proposals within a vision of “Integral Humanism” — viewing the individual, society and nature as an integrated whole — and emphasised that Africa, as “one of the greatest sufferers” of conventional growth models, deserved a new development approach.

“Over the past several decades, the G20 has provided direction to global finance and global economic growth. However, the parameters of growth on which the world has worked so far have left a large section of the population deprived of resources. They have also contributed to the over-exploitation of nature,” Modi said at the Johannesburg summit.

“Today, as Africa hosts the G20 Summit for the first time, it is imperative for us to reconsider the parameters of development,” he added.