05-12-2008, 08:24 AM
The above assumptions discount the foolish policies of the Indian gov't which have reduced India to the present state, there is a tendency to go gaga over IT whereas IT is a very tiny part of India's GDP, so you had Nehru who put the emphasis on higher education, which many credit as producing IT boom while ignoring the apalling literacy rates among the rest of the population.
The idea that IT will somehow magically transform the country is misplaced if u ask me, before you can become a service based economy you have to have got past the manufacturing phase and it is there that China has clearly outmatched India with its cheap labour force. everything you see these days has the made in China label on it while the Indian gov't fiddles its thumbs or puts all its eggs in the IT basket.
Also China is a dictatorship and does not have a 100 different parties each with their own agenda like India does, and some like the Communist party are positively hostile to Indian interests and work as the miners and sappers of Chinese imperialism.
When you consider all these factors it becomes clear why India cannot seem to catch up to China besides simplistic IQ analysis, and even some of those IQ differences themselves are a product of the myopic policies of Indian gov't which meant mass illiteracy and malnutrition are still a big problem.
The idea that IT will somehow magically transform the country is misplaced if u ask me, before you can become a service based economy you have to have got past the manufacturing phase and it is there that China has clearly outmatched India with its cheap labour force. everything you see these days has the made in China label on it while the Indian gov't fiddles its thumbs or puts all its eggs in the IT basket.
Also China is a dictatorship and does not have a 100 different parties each with their own agenda like India does, and some like the Communist party are positively hostile to Indian interests and work as the miners and sappers of Chinese imperialism.
When you consider all these factors it becomes clear why India cannot seem to catch up to China besides simplistic IQ analysis, and even some of those IQ differences themselves are a product of the myopic policies of Indian gov't which meant mass illiteracy and malnutrition are still a big problem.