Seicento milioni di indiani senza energia elettrica per due giorni: un disastro che ha causato distruzioni di ricchezza e di derrate, tragedie personali, ritardi, scomodità, disorganizzazioni a cascata, crollo di reputazioni. Però è anche grave che questa emergenza sia stata capita solo da pochi esperti. I giornali hanno parlato di ritardi nel realizzare infrastrutture, squilibri… Continua a leggere ROBERTO VACCA – INDIA E BLACKOUT
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NEW ACTORS ON THE AFGHAN SCENE
It seems that India is building the world’s biggest nuclear plant, in addition to its first nuclear submarine. No comment on the relevance of the latter program from the viewpoint of efforts to improve the lot of the Indian paupers, who did not disappear. However, the Indian economic might being now an established factor, it’s… Continua a leggere NEW ACTORS ON THE AFGHAN SCENE
OVEROPTIMISM DOES NOT SUIT INDIA
It’s excessive or faulty that Brazil and India are now currently described as vibrant, surging economies and societies. Two affluent friends, here in Milan, are busy every day collecting small donations in favor od Brazilian meninhos : abandoned, orphaned or very destitute children who do not eat regularly. The expectations about the sudden modernization of… Continua a leggere OVEROPTIMISM DOES NOT SUIT INDIA
MICRO-CREDIT IN BOMBAY
In our “western” universities our development-economists-to-be are taught everything about micro-finance. They study Mohammed Yunus’s life step by step. They are supposed to read “the Banker of the Poor” as if it was a holy script, they all should be familiar with those revolutionary (from the economical point of view) ideas that are the funding… Continua a leggere MICRO-CREDIT IN BOMBAY