>Doug Henwood wrote:
>Unlike other poor countries, India has a very dynamic tech sector
>that's not just about outsourcing. Seems like the boosters want to
>focus only on that, and the gloomsters on rural immiseration, when
>both things are true at once, and more."
>Comment: Hopefully it is a very dynamic sector, but can we find
>stats, data supporting this claim?,i.e, the % of GDP attributed to
>it, value added by the sector, the % of the labor force employed by
>the tech sector, the % of internal sales, the number of patents
>attributed to locals, etc? Until we can get a hold of these data,
>the claims would remain impressionistic,a la Thomas Friedman.
>Cristobal Senior
Check out my interview with Anthony D'Costa, <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#040108>.
Doug