In spite of your sarcasm, and allusions to misinformation, I am not in the business of manufacturing stats. They were taken from an article by Dr. VA Pai Panandikar in Goa Today, Aug 2003. He was the former President of the Centre of Policy Research, New Delhi. You may like to read the article and get a little more educated about Goa. BTW, since you are jumping with joy that Portugal has now overtaken the UK in reducing infant mortality by one less baby dead, why dont you provide all the other HDR figures which place the UK way ahead of Portugal in the same report. The aim of the debate was not to compare countrys indicators, but to rebut your wild and insubstantiated allegation that *neocolonists* had ruined Goa since 1961. If you stood on the soil of Goa in 1960 and again in 2000, and saw the all round improvement of all social parameters, I can assure you that we would not be having this debate in the first place. regards, Gilbert--and thats my name.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Rui Collaco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inaccuracies or deliberate misinformation should not pass on Goanet. That's > my "agenda". The figures on Goa's social indicators given by "Gilbert" (why > don't people identify themselves on Goanet?), seemed very good to me, for a > third world region. Some of them may even be true. However, if you check the > Union Budget 2003-2004, Economic Survey 2002-2003/Statistical Table/Human > Development Indicators/9.5 State-wise infant mortality rate > (http://indiabudget.nic.in), you get the following figures: > > Infant mortality rate > > 1961 2001 > > India 115 71 > Goa 57 36 > > This means that according to this most credible of Indian sources of > information, in 1961 the infant mortality rate in Goa was 57 (per 1000 live > births), half the rate for India, and in 2001 (forty years later) it was 36, > still half the rate of India as a whole, but not even half the rate of 40 > years before. What an achievement to boast about! > Gilbert was claiming that the rate for Goa was 70 in 1961, and is now 11! He > should check on his sources, unless he invented those rates. There are no > miracles these days, and I haven't heard about the Sultan of Brunei buying > up Goa, so there's no way the infant mortality rate could come down from 36 > to 11 per thousand in two years!!! Or are we to conclude that Indian > statistics are a free-for-all? > This is what I call misinformation, whether deliberate or by negligence. > > One last bit of info: Portugal's rate was 53 in 1970, and is now 5. The > U.K.'s is 6. That's in the United Nations Human Development Report- 2003. > > Rui Manuel Colla�o > > Lisbon ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
