On 1/30/15 1:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > How does this work out for a small state such as Greece? Is anyone in > the U.S. in a position to guide the Greeks?
For an example of how a government can work for the benefit of a "peripheral" country or state within a country, I recommend a look at Kerala. It is a mixed economy within a state run by radicals, just as Nicaragua was in the 80s until it was crushed by Reagan. --- Kerala provides an empirical example to show how it is possible to achieve both growth and improved income distribution through human development, a United Nations working paper has said. The document also estimates substantial losses in human development due to inequality in different dimensions across Indian States. The loss due to inequality is the highest with respect to education (43 per cent), followed by health (34 per cent), and income (16 per cent). The average loss due to inequality in India is 32 per cent at the all-India level. It is the highest for Madhya Pradesh (36 per cent) and Chhattisgarh (35 per cent) and the lowest for Kerala (17 per cent). Kerala is the only State in the country which remains in the ‘very high human development index (HDI)’ with respect to all the three dimensions, both with and without adjustment for inequality. In addition, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Punjab fare well by most of the indicators, with and without the adjustment for inequality. full: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-example-draws-un-praise/article4804409.ece _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
