<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Doug Henwood wrote:</DIV> <DIV>Unlike other poor countries, India has a very dynamic tech sector <BR>that's not just about outsourcing. Seems like the boosters want to <BR>focus only on that, and the gloomsters on rural immiseration, when <BR>both things are true at once, and more."</DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV>Cristobal Senior<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>