Finally, let's say it is 2008, and you have the opportunity to look back in time at the period covered under this strategy. What would you like to see as India's major accomplishments over this period?

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MICHAEL CARTER: The first, of course, seeing that there has been continued rapid progress in the reduction of poverty, that one of the key inputs for that has been clear evidence that India's growth rate is accelerating from the underlying rate of less than 6 percent at the moment to something more than that which India has real potential for, on a sustainable basis.

I'd like to see real progress in the improvement of delivery of services to ordinary people, with one key ingredient of that being the emergence of a far stronger system of local government really able much more to be responsive to what ordinary people think and need.

I would hope that we would also see some evidence that the AIDS epidemic in India, which at the moment is growing quite rapidly, even if from a small base, was beginning to turn downwards.

And I would like to see some real achievements in stimulating partnerships between the public sector and the private sector to be putting in place major not individual projects, but some major programs for the development of India's economic infrastructure, which is crucial for longer-term growth.

Those are just, very quickly, a few of the things which I think we ought to be seeing in four years' time.