[lbo-talk] Better Than China, Saudi Arabia, Etc.!

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> --- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>
> >
> > You may want to look at UNDP's Human Development
> > Index and rank at
> > http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/
> >
> > Russia's rank (57) can be compared with China (94).
> >
> > If one wanted make facile comparisons, one could add
> > Saudi Arabia (77), Turkmenistan (86) and Azerbaijan
> > (91)  to the list. :)
> >
> > Ulhas
> >
>
> How come Chinese illegal immigrants are flooding into Russia, and  
> not vice versa? ;)
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!

Things are better in Russia and India than in China, Saudi Arabia,  
Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan.  Somehow, that doesn't impress me.  :- 

 >  When you begin to console yourself that you are better off than  
people in the aforementioned countries, you've already lowered the  
bar, giving up on the idea of catching up with the West and  
confirming dependency theorists.  :->

Yoshie Furuhashi
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