Comments on: Why is India poor? Classifying the reasons http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:24:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Quizman http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1208 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1208 Hi, yes..you forgot "laws" {or lack of implementation thereof) Hi,
yes..you forgot “laws” {or lack of implementation thereof)

]]> by: Yazad http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1209 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1209 Can we add that under poor governance? Can we add that under poor governance?

]]> by: Jivha http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1210 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1210 As a pseudo-MBA who was instructed for two years in the art of top-down analysis I would appreciate it you could qualify what you mean by the rather open-ended term "poor"? Is it on absolute terms or is it relative? What are the metrics you are using to measure our poverty(so we can know when we stopped being poor...sometime in the hopefully near future)? "India is poor" has a rather loose interpretation unless you choose to qualify/restrict it. I'm sorry for not having asked for these clarifications in your earlier post, but then as the cliche goes, "better late than never" :) As a pseudo-MBA who was instructed for two years in the art of top-down analysis I would appreciate it you could qualify what you mean by the rather open-ended term “poor”? Is it on absolute terms or is it relative? What are the metrics you are using to measure our poverty(so we can know when we stopped being poor…sometime in the hopefully near future)?

“India is poor” has a rather loose interpretation unless you choose to qualify/restrict it.

I’m sorry for not having asked for these clarifications in your earlier post, but then as the cliche goes, “better late than never” :)

]]> by: Ramnath http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1211 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1211 Hey, where will my revolutionary reason fit in ;-) How about expanding the category, 'lack of strong middle class', to include 'lower class' also... Hey, where will my revolutionary reason fit in ;-)

How about expanding the category, ‘lack of strong middle class’, to include ‘lower class’ also…

]]> by: asli http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1212 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1212 How does corruption make people poor? How many poor Indians do you know who became poor because of corruption? How does lack of education make a country poor? Education > intelligence Over-population is actually a strength, not a weakness. How does corruption make people poor? How many poor Indians do you know who became poor because of corruption?

How does lack of education make a country poor? Education > intelligence

Over-population is actually a strength, not a weakness.

]]> by: asli http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1213 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1213 I meant education is not equal to intelligence For some reason, the less than sign got stripped out of the comment. I meant education is not equal to intelligence

For some reason, the less than sign got stripped out of the comment.

]]> by: Yazad http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1214 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1214 Jivha, Poor in a material / absolute sense. I don't want to get into the poverty line / GDP / per capita income debate. Largely because we are poor in almost every sense of the word and splitting hairs on "how poor" etc is a good topic for a research paper, but I'd avoid it here. For a quick intuitive feel, let me arbitrarily fix the poverty line to be $1,000 per person per annum (not PPP, nominal exchange rate) Jivha,

Poor in a material / absolute sense. I don’t want to get into the poverty line / GDP / per capita income debate. Largely because we are poor in almost every sense of the word and splitting hairs on “how poor” etc is a good topic for a research paper, but I’d avoid it here.

For a quick intuitive feel, let me arbitrarily fix the poverty line to be $1,000 per person per annum (not PPP, nominal exchange rate)

]]> by: Yazad http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1215 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1215 Ramnath, your point is well represented in "Culture" Ramnath, your point is well represented in “Culture”

]]> by: Yazad http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1216 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1216 Asli, I intend to pick up all the points mentioned above and debate them in individual posts. Can you please hold on to your comments and then repeat them when population / education / corruption are discussed? Thanks! Asli, I intend to pick up all the points mentioned above and debate them in individual posts. Can you please hold on to your comments and then repeat them when population / education / corruption are discussed? Thanks!

]]> by: Nitin http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1217 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/05/21/why-is-india-poor-classifying-the-reasons/#comment-1217 Yazad Is India poor? or are Indians poor? You may want to answer this question before you go on. Yazad

Is India poor? or are Indians poor?

You may want to answer this question before you go on.

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