looks like communism does work in practice - all we need to do is make VALID comparisons and avoid comparing apples to oranges. Any comments? Professor DeLong?
wojtek
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:03:07 -0500
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>Subject: Kerala, Communism and Human Development
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>ABC had a short piece on Kerala State this week as part of the news
>coverage of Mr. Clinton to India.
>
>Among other thngs the Reporter said that Kerala State had the lowest Infant
>Mortality Rate in India; that women had the highest educational rates and
>that Kerala State residents had access to clean water and health care.
>
>What ABC didn't mention was that Kerala State has been governed by its
>Communist Party for most of the recent past since Independence from Great
>Britain.
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>For more about this remarkable story, go to:
>
>Govenance:
>http://www.keralagov.com/
>
>State Planning in Kerala
> http://www.keralaspb.org/
>
>Some background on political geography
>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/vipin/www/kerala.html
>
>On-line newspaper
>http://www.kaumudi.com/
>
>For an overview of development in Kerala State, see:
>
>Science for Social Revolution? : Achievements and Dilemmas of a Development
>Movement-The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad
>Mathew Zachariah, R. Sooryamoorthy / Hardcover / Published 1994
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