Business Standard
Thursday, July 29, 2004
BMW team concludes Kerala assessment visit
Our Correspondent / Kochi July 29,2004
A high level delegation from German car major BMW
concluded a 3-day visit to
the state to check out the possibility of starting a
vehicles manufacturing
unit.
According
OutLookIndia.com
Magazine | Jun 14, 2004
KERALA
Orange Letter Day
A pro-NDA verdict opens the account at last in the
south state. One-off, or
is the parivar consolidating?
JOHN MARY
When Archbishop Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithayathil, on
the eve of the Lok Sabha
elections, said on TV that the
The Hindu
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Communalising Kerala
By K.N. Panikkar
A transition from the communitarian to the communal
has been taking place, slowly but steadily.
ANOTHER BASTION is falling. Kerala known for its
relatively harmonious communal relations has lately
witnessed quite a few
Michael Perelman,
Some posters on this list have expressed their support
for the breakup of Russia, India, Iran, Iraq, Syria
and Turkey. I would like know what is your personal
opinion in this matter.
Ulhas
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Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't have any simple answers.
Please unsubscribe me from your list.
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Chris Doss wrote:
Reactionary is an understatement.
This is equally true of terrorists in Kashmir. About
70% of terrorists killed in Kashmir in the recent
years have been non-Kashmiris. They are usually
Punjabis trained by the ISI and smuggled into Kashmir.
But other nationalities are also
HindustanTimes.com
Thursday, July 29, 2004
UN food programme facing severe shortfall of funding
Press Trust of India
United Nations, July 29
Severe shortfall in funding has forced the United
Nations to cut its
deliveries of vital rations to millions of hungry
people in North Korea.
The North
ravi wrote:
This is equally true of terrorists in Kashmir.
About
70% of terrorists killed in Kashmir in the recent
years have been non-Kashmiris. They are usually
Punjabis trained by the ISI and smuggled into
Kashmir.
what are the sources for these numbers?
I suggest you visit
ravi wrote:
Kashmir:
a US protectorate in reality.
then our duty is not to deny the
former, but to fight the
latter, isn't it?
How do you fight the latter?
Btw, do CPI and CPM share your positions?
Ulhas
Yahoo!
People's Daily Online
Life
UPDATED: 18:16, July 22, 2004
China has 600 million telephone users
China had close to 600 million fixed and mobile phone
users by the end of
June this year.
Statistics released from the Ministry of Information
Industry show 30
million new telephone users signed up
HindustanTimes.com
Monday, July 19, 2004
Maoist rebels abduct 50 school children in Nepal
Reuters
kathmandu, July 19
Maoist guerrillas have abducted at least 50 students
and a dozen teachers
from a school on the outskirts of the Nepali capital
in a bid to force them
into their fold, a police
Paul wrote:
[See what happens with some encouragement - soon
I'll be overposting!
Is there a limit on posting?
For India, from 1992 to 2001, the GNI increased by
64% when calculated by
the World Bank Atlas method (non-PPP).
I presume this comment is about India's GDP as a whole
and not
The Hindu
Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004
Ukraine drops bid to join E.U., NATO
By Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW, JULY 27. Ukraine has formally abandoned its
goal of joining NATO in
a sign of its growing tilt towards Russia.
The Ukrainian President, Leonid Kuchma, signed a
decree ordering changes in
the
Diane Monaco wrote:
How far Cuba can be regarded as an independent and
socialist nation-state, if there is extensive
dollarisation of Cuban economy?
I'm not sure what independent really means,
True, the Left no longer seems know what
independence really means ! :)
Cuba is
Diane Monaco wrote:
That being said and I agree again with you, the
Kurds are an oppressed nationality. Period.
Does it mean that the Left should support the breakup
of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey?
Ulhas
Yahoo! India
BusinessWeek Online
JULY 26, 2004 .
ASIAN BUSINESS
North Korea: Open For Business -- A Bit
North Korea remains poor, but Kim's reforms are
bringing growth
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_30/b3893074.htm
The Hindu
Tuesday, Jul 06, 2004
Russia plays energy card
By Vladimir Radyuhin
As global energy demand soars, President Vladimir
Putin wants to use oil and
gas exports as instruments to speed up Russia's
economic revival and enhance
its geopolitical weight.
RUSSIA HAS embarked on a new
OutlookIndia.com
Web | Jul 23, 2004
OPINION
The Sarajevo Of Iraq
In the ongoing crisis in Iraq, one factor has remained
unchanged: the loyalty of the Kurds to Washington. And
the worsening Kurdish-Arab friction.
DILIP HIRO
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040723fname=hirosid=1
The Hindu
Thursday, Jul 22, 2004
China frees whistle-blower
Beijing: The Chinese military surgeon who exposed the
Government's cover-up
of the SARS crisis was released on Tuesday after seven
weeks of political
re-education'', his family said. Jiang Yanyong (72), a
semi-retired general
in the
People's Daily Online
Life
UPDATED: 14:01, July 27, 2004
Some 100 million Chinese continue to suffer iodine
deficiency
China's plan to eradicate iodine deficiency disorders
by 2000 has been
frustrated by chronic shortages of the indispensable
element in some areas,
health authorities said at a
raviwrote:
i think if i understand you correctly, you are
commenting on the
hypocrisy of cuban support for kashmiris. that may
be valid. can i infer
further that you do not disagree with the content of
their call: i.e.,
the kashmiri people deserve the right of
self-determination?
No, I
Devine, James wrote:
I don't know much about this subject, but isn't a
lot of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan?
Yes, about a third of Kashmir is controlled by
Pakistan.
wouldn't it be best if both India and
Pakistan gave up their claims to the areas that the
other controls?
Yes. India
The Hindu
Monday, Jul 26, 2004
Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, JULY 25. Relations between Turkey and Israel
appear to be souring
rapidly amid reports that Israeli commandos are
training Kurds in northern
Iraq to encourage the emergence of an independent
Kurdish state.
Anthony D'Costa wrote:
But what he said was
that Chandra Babu Naidu
the laptop toting chief minister of Andhra Pradesh,
who was recently
ousted in the elections, transferred massive water
to the urban, high tech
driven city, at the expense of the rural folks.
This story hasn't been
Chris Doss wrote: Ha.
Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by
Kashmiris?
Ulhas
--- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The Hindu
Monday, Jul 26, 2004
Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
By Atul Aneja
ravi wrote:
tariq ali writes:
TA The real question is what to do about Kashmir,
and the simple answer
is to ask the Kashmiris.
Let us then ask Tibetan and Uighurs what they want.
Let us ask Sindhis and Baluchis in Pakistan, Tamils in
Sri Lanka, Arakan people in Mynamar, muslims in South
ravi wrote:
Let there be self-determination everywhere, from
Bejing to
Havana.
in a general sense, why not?
Surely, Cuban leadership (and this is only an
example)should offer self-determination to Cubans
before it demands demands self-determination for
Kashmiris?
Ulhas
sartesian wrote:
The
issue is the material determinants of the struggle,
the history of the
conflict in the area and what the resolution
requires.
1. Independent Kashmir would be a US protectorate in
reality.
2. Jammu Kashmir is not a homogenous entity.
3. A part of the territory of
Paul wrote:
BUT, using the PPP technique I described in earlier
posts, the World Bank
also calculates an imputed (imaginary) GNI. For the
same group of
countries this calculation boosts their Gross
National Income from $6.1 to
$20.5 trillion! This is a 320% increase - but just
on paper
The Hindu
Sunday, Jul 25, 2004
The decline of the palace
[King Gyanendra faces dwindling support. -- Photo: AP
]
TWO INCIDENTS earlier this month, the details of which
were reported in the
Nepali press, confirmed for many their fears about
Crown Prince Paras.
Last Saturday, the Prince stormed
Paul wrote:
The PPP numbers ARE used to show that
neo-liberal policies
in India would be better for India.
I don't know what you mean neo-liberal, but nobody
is using _PPP numbers_ in India to support neo-liberal
policies. Nor anybody in India is opposing _PPP
numbers_ to justify Marxists or
Paul wrote:
It is buried in the statistics they (the
neo-liberal proponents)
use.
I was making a simple point that the debate on
economic policy in India has little to do the utility
of PPP numbers.
Paul was trying to show how PPP numbers overstate the
economic growth in the developing
The Economic Times
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Let the pleasant trade winds blow
JOSEPH E STIGLITZ
In the year since the breakdown of the trade talks in
Cancun, sentiment has
increasingly grown in the developing world that no
agreement is better than
a bad agreement. But what would a good
The Times of India
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2004
Iran will have nuke capacity by '07: Israel
AFP
JERUSALEM: Israeli intelligence chiefs told Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's
security cabinet in a joint assessment on Wednesday
that Iran will have a
nuclear weapons capacity by 2007, public radio
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Peasant Suicides in India is a chapter in Contours
of Descent: U.S.
Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global
Austerity by Robert Pollin
that details the ruinous outcomes of IMF policies on
Indian farmers.
India doesn't owe any money to the IMF. How IMF
Perelman, Michael wrote:
Farmers' suicides:
Why are they localized?
Failure of monsoons, farmers' indebtness, shift to the
cash crops etc. are among the principal factors.
See interview of CPIM Secretary, B.V. Raghavalu for
Andhra Pradesh (Pop. about 80 million)for details in
Fronline, 19
Michael Perelman wrote:
Yes, but why are they localized in only 1 state?
Aren't these problems more widespread?
I have not studied the pattern of rainfall region by
region. Distribution of monsoon varies from region to
region and within each region its timing during
June-September monsoon
Diane Monaco wrote:
There are three -- actually four if you include the
euro that is now
accepted at a few tourist locations in Havana --
currencies used in Cuba:
the Cuban peso, the convertible peso (equivalent to
the dollar), and
dollars. All three of these currencies circulate
Daniel Davies wrote:
nor is Malaysia
Behalf Of Chris Doss
Russia is not a 3rd world country.
Third World is not a useful category.
Ulhas
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Frontline
Volume 16 - Issue 8, Apr. 10 - 23, 1999
CUBA
Cuba: Dealing with the dollar
C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR
recently in Havana
How Cuba copes with the long-term effects of the U.S.
blockade against it by
making the pursuit of dollar earning a virtual
movement.
The Planning Commission
Government of India
National Human Development Report 2001
http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/reportsf.htm
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The Hindu
Saturday, Jul 24, 2004
Kurdish warlords delay unity
By Jonathan Steele
Kurdistan's two big party leaders may end up producing
a deal with Baghdad
that their own people denounce.
SHORT OF leaving Iraq altogether, the only chance of
escaping Baghdad's
overwhelming heat and the
Anthony D'Costa wrote:
The Hindu-Muslim divide is India's least problematic
cultural divide.
Hindu-Muslim divide has the potential to threaten
India's unity and democratic structure. Caste divide
does not have that potential.
The Indian government has generally handled demands
for autonomy
People's Daily Online
Life
UPDATED: 17:34, June 26, 2004
41 million Chinese believed to have hepatitis C virus:
report
An estimated 41 million people in China have
contracted the hepatitis C
virus, which could become a fatal quiet epidemic,
according to Professor
Xu Daozheng, a liver disease
Diane Monaco wrote:
Cuba IS a remarkable country
Hi Diane ! Mexico is not far behind Cuba in HDI,
AFAIK.
Btw, 75% Singaporeans, 50% Malaysians 33% of Thais
have cell phones. How many cell phones Cuba has?
Ulhas
Yahoo!
The Hindu
Tuesday, Jul 20, 2004
Slave labour in Brazil
By Paul Brown
An unpublished report for the ILO says that despite
the best efforts of the
Brazilian Government, slave labour continues in the
country's interior.
AN ESTIMATED 25,000 people are working as slave
labourers in Brazil clearing
Devine, James wrote:
In any event, there's no way one could reduce human
welfare to either cell phones or all phones.
300 million Indians watch CTVs today, but I know there
is no way one could reduce human welfare to CTVs.
Ulhas
The HinduTuesday, Jul 20, 2004Indonesian church minister killedJAKARTA: Unidentified gunmen burst into a church in central Indonesia andopened fire, killing the woman minister and wounding four worshippers,police said on Monday. The killing on Sunday evening took place in Palu,central Sulawesi
The Financial ExpressFriday, July 16, 2004HDI Improves, Ranking Doesn'tOUR POLICY BUREAUPosted online: Friday, July 16, 2004 at 0103 hours ISTNEW DELHI, JULY 15: India's human development index (HDI) has shown asteady improvement in the last couple of years. India's ranking, however, at127 out of
The Financial ExpressFriday, July 16, 2004HDI Improves, Ranking Doesn'tOUR POLICY BUREAUPosted online: Friday, July 16, 2004 at 0103 hours ISTNEW DELHI, JULY 15: India's human development index (HDI) has shown asteady improvement in the last couple of years. India's ranking, however, at127 out of
Hari Kumar wrote:
3) a neo-colony, a former colony which has become a semi- colony,
continuing to be dominated by a greater power for the benefit of
the latter's ruling class, e.g., Tunisia, Jamaica.
I don't know much about Cuba, but how would you describe Cuba's relationship
to the fSU?
HindustanTimes.com
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Vietnam's army gears up for telecoms offensive
AFP
Hanoi, August 21
Vietnam's military will kick off its major offensive on the domestic
telecommunications market on September 2, becoming the communist state's
fifth Internet service provider (ISP).
Hari Kumar wrote:
1) You ask essentially, whether I think Cuba was a neo-colony of the fUSSR?
Answer: I do. Our views on Cuban Revisionism; Castro, to a limited
extent on Guevera are at this site address: Cuban Revisionism
In synopsis: a national bourgeoisie who rapidly appreciated that
Jim wrote:
My impression is that the old USSR subsidized Cuba big time, by buying
sugar at a (usually) above-market rate and selling oil to them at a
(usually) below-market rate. Thus, when the USSR went south, Cuba's
economy
went into severe crisis (which they have adapted to very well,
Hari Kumar wrote:
I suggest that the term is still meaningful. [Even despite the
increasingly 'narrow' stage on which national capitalists can play in
today's even more inter-penetrated world]. It describes for instance
the opponents of Chavez in the recent tussles in Venezuela. ie. Those
rediff.com:
April 6, 2001
Admiral J G Nadkarni (retd)
Who cares if Soviet ships were new or old?
Obviously the three services and the ministry of defence are on a major
image mending exercise. Aided and advised by the media's elder statesman B G
Verghese, the army and navy recently held
Hari Kumar:
(1) IT si true that the COMPRADOR capital was expropriated:
What is comprador capital in contemporary capitalism? We know productive
capital, industrial capital etc. from their place in the accumulation
process. What do compradors do in the accumulation process today? Is the
term
ken hanly wrote:
So how come Pakistan isnt part of the axis of evil and attacked for
developing weapons of mass destruction and ignoring the UN?
Pakistan acquired nuclear weapons capability in 80s. The decision to develop
nuclear weapon capability was probably made immediately after the loss
HindustanTimes.com
Sunday, August 18, 2002
UN cuts rations as Afghan food aid runs out
Simon Denyer (Reuters)
Mazar-i-Sharif, August 18
The UN's World Food Programme is being forced to cut rations for millions of
hungry and vulnerable Afghans because international donors have failed to
stump
Jim wrote:
an accounting quibble: it's not a balance of payments deficit, but a
current-account deficit balanced by a capital-account surplus, where the
latter implies that the US national net worth is falling.
Thanks for replying. One more question, if you don't mind. How the US can
have a
The Financial Express
Thursday, August 15, 2002
Taiwan Banks To Expedite Merger Efforts As Competition Hots Up
Taipei, Aug 14: Two large bank mergers in Taiwan, worth nearly $ six
billion, will force smaller rivals to speed up their search for partners in
a crowded financial sector that has
Jim D. wrote:
Laissez-faire_ (blatantly pro-business) capitalism of the sort that
prevailed in the .1920s and the 1980s-90s eventually causes an
underconsumption undertow that increasingly drags the system into crisis.
Counteracting influences -- such as increasing extension of credit --
Jim wrote:
In fact, under the right conditions, such as those of the 1950s and 1960s
in the U.S., it can pull up wages (relative to labor productivity) and
thus
consumer demand, preventing underconsumption problems (without it being
necessary for consumers to get into severe debt).
Would this
The Economic Times
Saturday, August 10, 2002
Forget slump, Hong Kongs super rich still have a ball
REUTERS
HONG KONG: Abbie Chan drives a Porsche and says she owns about half a dozen
luxury apartments in Hong Kong.
A regular on the high-society circuit, the businesswoman attends 3-4 balls a
The Times of India
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2002
Malaysian courts order illegal immigrants to be whipped
AP
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian courts for the first time ordered seven foreigners
to be whipped and imprisoned for entering the country without valid papers
under tough new laws against illegal
Scott Harrison wrote:
There are still Marxist revolutionaries in this world, and in fact growing
numbers of them in some areas--especially south Asia
Growing number in South Asia as a whole? You mean Nepal, I presume.
Ulhas
Hari Kumar wrote:
Dear Louis, don't patronise.
Indian CPs have 1 million party members, but on Left-wing mailing lists I
have been subjected to lectures on party building, stagism, Marx's letter to
Zasulikh, Marx on India, Vasco de gama etc etc. ! :-)
Ulhas
The Economic Times
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
FDI in China continues to show robust growth
AFP
BEIJING: Foreign direct investment in China surged 22 per cent year-on-year
in the first seven months of 2002, well up on the 18.7 per cent recorded in
the first half of the year, official figures
The Times of India
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2002
Moon within our reach: Isro
SRINIVAS LAXMAN
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
MUMBAI: The report of the lunar mission task force, which was constituted by
the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) last year, states that the
moon is within Indias reach.
The
The Economic Times
Sunday, August 11, 2002
Japanese firms cutting pension benefits: report
REUTERS
TOKYO: Declining investment returns are forcing a growing number of Japanese
companies to cut pension benefits, according to a government survey reported
in the financial daily Nihon Keizai
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Michael is quite right. I just don't see any real evidence of Marx arguing
for stage-ism, in the sense of a necessary sequence of stages of
development. He just says that the more developed capitalist country shows
the less developed capitalist country an image of its
Business Standard
Friday, August 9, 2002
ASIA FILE
A river of opportunity
It is classic regional cooperation, although environmentalists will have
different views, says Barun Roy
It is classic regional cooperation, although environmentalists will have
different views. Thailand is helping
HindustanTimes.com
Saturday, August 10, 2002
Jordan won't be a launchpad for Iraq strikes
Agence France-Presse
Kuwait City, August 10
Jordan's foreign minister stressed Saturday his country would not serve as a
launchpad for any US military action against Iraq and saw time enough for
Baghdad
Economist.com
China's Three Gorges' project
Dam shame
Jul 4th 2002 | FENGJIE COUNTY
From The Economist print edition
What happens to the villagers who dare to protest
IN THE village of Yaowan on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, some
residents are dreading the imminent arrival of the
Rob Schaap wrote:
'Globalisation' may not have looked too synchronised while the hegemon
seemed to be going well, but it sure looks synchronised when it's not.
Global: A Global Double Dip?
Stephen Roach (New York)
With globalization comes a world business cycle with increasingly
HindustanTimes.com
Thursday, August 01, 2002
Russia holds biggest post-Soviet military exercises in Caspian
Agence France-Presse
Moscow, August 01
Russia on Thursday launched large-scale military exercises in the Caspian
Sea which will involve more than 60 warships and 10,000 men, the biggest
Anthony D'Costa wrote:
Both import substitution industrialization and export oriented
industrialization can be seen as national strategies, which are not quite
the same thing as models. On hindsight strategies may become models,
when theorised and abstracted.
Yes, the word strategy would
Jim D. wrote:
I didn't say that India was pursuing the export-led growth model. My
understanding -- based on incomplete info, BTW -- is that after
independence the model was import-substitution and that in the last 10
years or so, India was in the process of switching over to export-led
growth
The Financial Express
Friday, August 02, 2002
Foreign Cash To Propel Chinese Airline Revamp
Shanghai, August 1: China's easing of caps on foreign investment in the
aviation sector on Thursday will propel its airlines into the global jet set
and give foreign carriers a bigger share of the
The Economic Times
Saturday, August 03, 2002
Strike on Iraq would redraw regional economic map
REUTERS
CAIRO: Success for Washington's stated goal of regime change in Iraq would
redraw the economic map of west Asia as well as its political map.
A possible return of Iraq as a full trading
The Hindu
Thursday, Aug 01, 2002
Iran may find it hard to spurn Russian offer
By Atul Aneja
MANAMA (BAHRAIN) JULY 31. Though Iran has got a commitment from Russia on
the supply of civilian nuclear reactors, in return it may have to go along
with Moscow's controversial plans to share the
Devine, James:
Stalinism (which prevailed from the 1920s to the 1980s in the USSR, with a
political party holding a monopoly of the state power and the state
dominating society) does not seem a good case of armed workers in control
of their own state at all. If anything, a new stratum (or class)
The Times of India
THURSDAY, AUGUST 01, 2002
China modernising Pak infrastructure
PTI
BEIJING: As part of Beijing's efforts to supplement its strong political and
military ties with Islamabad, China is actively helping develop Pakistan's
key infrastructure sectors like roads, ports and
The Hindu
Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002
Jordan opposes action against Iraq
By Hasan Suroor
LONDON JULY 29. King Abdullah of Jordan, who met the British Prime Minister,
Tony Blair, here on Monday, rejected speculation that his country would back
any U.S. military action in Iraq and accused the
joanna bujes :
Yeah, I read the Wallerstein piece that was posted earlier today and I was
profoundly underwhelmed. It made me think that one cure for neo-marxism
would be some kind of grunt job for at least a year (in lieu of a
sabbatical). Beyond that, Hardt/Negri/Wallerstein/etc interest
The Times of India
SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2002
Pak court awards death sentence for blasphemy
PTI
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani man, who once worked for the husband of noted human
rights activist Asma Jahangir, has been sentenced to death by a court in
Lahore for making derogatory remarks about Islam.
The Hindu
Monday, Jul 29, 2002
Ending destitution
By Jean Dreze
Food transfers to the destitute are a good way of using the surplus grain
stocks.
SAMRI DEVI is a 70-year-old widow who lives in Kusumatand, an impoverished
hamlet in Palamau district, Jharkhand. Her son, Bhageshwar Bhuiya,
Michael Pollak wrote:
Maybe not. It's perfectly possible that some crops are better
industrialized and some not. Or it's possible that all are better
industrialized. I'd just like to see some reliable figures and causal
explanations of why this is so.
But just to take your first example
Michael Pollak wrote:
I guess in one sentence what I'm looking for is a book that describes the
actually-existing Indian model and compares it to those others. Does such
a thing exist?
I see what you mean and will keep my eyes open for a thing of that sort !
I am not sure models are
Devine, James:
To say that models aren't useful is basically saying that theory and
abstraction have no role. But people can't think without abstraction. A
mere list of facts doesn't help at all.
The key is to combine abstract knowledge (theories, model) with concrete
knowledge of the real world.
Michael Pollak wrote:
Ulhas, could recommend a good book that describes India's distinctive, and
recently fairly successful, non-export-led development path? And perhaps
as well an intelligent (rather than cookie-cutter ideological) critique of
the limits of same?
Michael, I am not sure
The Times of India
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2002
UNDP urges political reform in China
AFP
BEIJING: A scathing UN-sponsored report published Friday urged the Chinese
government to implement political reforms if it is to head off a mounting
environment catastrophe as well as growing social unrest.
Michael Pollak :
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
Yes, but there is a viewpoint which attributes the relative backwardness
of French industry to the presence of French peasant economy.
I'm not sure I follow. By 1970 France had certainly reached the point
every developing
Ben Day wrote:
Well, Kerala was also the only Indian state, to a great extent, to
successfully implement land reform.
Land reforms have taken place in West Bengal (Pop. 75 million), where the
CPs are in power for last 25 years without a break. Land reforms have taken
in other parts of
India,
Michael Pollak wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
The share of agriculture in India's GDP has declined from 55% in 1950 to
26% in 2000.
Out of curiousity, Ulhas, what's its share in terms of percentage of
population?
Urban population is 27% of the total population
The Hindu
Sunday, Jul 28, 2002
Russia's move to expand ties with Iran may anger U.S.
By Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW JULY 27. Ignoring American protests Russia has unveiled plans to
expand trade and economic ties with Iran. The Russian Government has
approved a 10-year programme of wide-ranging
Justin Schwartz wrote:
In my typical, class-blinkered, petty bourgeois manner, I am a real fan
of
expertise. Democracy has its place, but not in micro-managing the use of
real expertise by real experts. There are skills that require long study
and
constant application to master, and where
Michael Pollak:
Doug Henwood wrote:
How can you have electricity or hospitals (presumably with drugs and
equipment) without large-scale production, and how can you improve
the productivity of small-scale agriculture without the kinds of
inputs made in factories?
You can't. But you can
Business Standard
Friday, December 15, 2000
ASIA FILE
The Vietnamese farm offensive
Diversification paves the way for a success story of the nation's farm
sector, says Barun Roy
Beginning next year, Vietnam will abolish all export quotas for rice, end
the public sector monopoly in rice trade
Business Standard
Tuesday, November 28, 2000
WATCHWORD
Mao Zedong with soya sauce
Manas Chakravarty discovers that Mao has been forgotten in Shanghai
Mao is passe, said the Singapore businessman sitting next to me on the
China Eastern Airlines' Shanghai flight. He had just learned that I was
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