Dear Murali Like I mentioned earliet, it might be relevant for you to step out of swaminomics to sainath for instance. What is the leftist discourse you are talking about and who are the "straw men"? Pleae look at he Gini - coefficient for India in the past decade (computed by the World Bank) and respond Like I mentioned earlier, I'd rather trust a Sainath empiricism to a Swaminathan Iyer - Prakash Karat throeicism
Pleae continue smiling with your comfort levels Best On 04/04/2008, Murali K Warier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The gape is widening due to these aggressive neo-liberal > policies(argusengupta's report on unorganised sector). > > I often smile it this kind of straw-man attacks on neo-liberalism, which > is a regular feature of Leftist discourse. The assumption here is that India > has instituted wide ranging reforms, and despite that, or because of that, > the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Though this has become a > 'truth' by repeated assertion, there is little evidence for it, precisely > because India hasn't instituted wide ranging reforms, and shows up in the > bottom of the list of all indicators of economic freedom. Take a look at > this: http://www.swaminomics.org/articles/20071104.htm > > The plight of the poor is mainly the result of failure of governance and > corruption, not of the rising wealth of Ambanis or neo-liberal reforms which > has been applied only in a very few industries at best. Another brilliant > one from my favorite economist, S A Aiyar: > http://www.swaminomics.org/et_articles/et20070829.htm > > What the poor really want are economic opportunities, not sanctimonious > advices on how bad the neo-liberals are or how immoral the wealth of Ambanis > and Tatas are. > > Best regards, > Murali > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:06 PM, C.K. Vishwanath < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't > want to hear. > > > -- Bobby Kunhu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
