>On 8/10/05, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Infant mortality rate(s) [down from 146 in 1960 to 65 in 2002]
>>Life expectancy at birth [up from 38.7 in 1965 to 73.8 in 1995], etc.>>
>Are hardly remarkable figures -- pretty much most (all?) of East Asia
>trumps those numbers, even Indonesia (with lower average IMR in 1999,
>but shorter life expectancy at birth, and much higher adult (15+)
>literacy rates)
I agree these are not spectacular figures. East and South Asia's economic performance is better than India. I am simply questioning the popular Leftwing idea that capitalist development in the "Third World" is very difficult, if not altogether impossible.
Ulhas