[PEN-L:28645] Re: Re: Re: Vandana Shiva

["Ulhas Joglekar" <joglekarulhas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:

> I completely agree with that. But to do all these things, you need
> more industry, and more industry means transforming the division of
> labor and socializing production now done in the household. You can
> do the good things that Kerala did, but Kerala is still poor. The
> only way to make India less poor is to industrialize somehow. I don't
> think Shiva, or her fans in the West, agree.

I agree with this. But I think India needs at a century of sustained eonomic
growth to abolish mass poverty. Consider China. Despite China's high growth
rate, almost 20% of China's population (or 250 million people) survive on
less than 1 $ a day. The rest live on $ 2 a day.This after 50 years of
"socialism". It will take sustained economic development over a long period
to abolish poverty in China, India and Indonesia.

Ulhas