To Nihil Desai... you raise interesting issues in your laconic treatment of the numbers..... which connect to Remigio Achia's zinging criticism of expensive western consultants, in the following way.... not only do they (we) come in with expense accounts and a marked reluctance to venture forth from the eastern US seabord or national capitals in order to articulate influential policy advice, but (they) we come in with a heavy western 'numbers' bias, based on extensive graduate exposure to western professors of statistics, theories of central tendency, and a form of analytical mechanics which may perhaps turn out to be as limiting to understanding human behaviour as Newtonian theories did to physics..... the issue of information as a public good has been thoughtfully adressed (eg OXFAM <http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/oicampaign.html>) and technologies also, though tangentially, in the new UNDP Human Development Report (e.g. p95, 96)...
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