Saturday, July 10, 2010

My Way News - Land wars bedevil India's rush to industrialize:
My Way News reports: "Some say India is trying to industrialize too fast, without the education and infrastructure in place to give the rural poor a fighting chance. 'How long did the industrial revolution take to be implemented in the West? Two hundred years. You want to replicate the same model and squeeze it into 20 years. That's not possible. The fallout will be massive,' said Bhaskar Goswami, an economist [...] Even industrialization's staunchest advocates acknowledge that the transition out of agriculture - or for tens of millions of nomadic tribal people, a pre-agricultural lifestyle - typically takes generations."

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