Re: Liu on Chinese economy Part II

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They are Navarro's data and it relates to 1983.

Henry

Ulhas Joglekar wrote:

> Henry:
> > Vicento Navarro of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
> > Health argues, that China's success from the outset of the revolution
> > in introducing health and hygiene measures resulted in it having saved
> > millions of lives.  This can be seen when we compare China to a
> > comparable nation in terms of poverty and development at the outset of
> > the Chinese revolution, such as India.  For example, China's infant
> > mortality rates equaled India's in 1960, but by 1983 were only a third
> > of India's.  Life expectancy was also similar in these two nations in
> > 1960, but by 1970 China's people lived on average 10 years longer.
> > This margin widened over the 1970s and 1980s.  This was all done while
> their per capita incomes remained similar.
>
> I don't know what is the source for these numbers. Henry says that China's
> infant mortality rates were only a third of India's in 1983. According to
> Human Development Report for 1999 published by UNDP, infant mortality rates
> for China and India were 48 and 70 per 1000 respectively. Certainly China
> has done better than India in human development, but the gap is not as much
> as is indicated above.
>
> Ulhas