 The post-1991 dismantling of IndiaÂ’s nationally regulated economy has been accompanied by a rapid growth of social inequality and economic insecurity, according to an analysis published by the World Socialist Website (WSWS).
| Right. We expect unbiased and objective analysis from the World Socialist Website. |
Keith Jones
| ... of SF.Indymedia fame... |
writes that in “democratic India”, hundreds of millions of people must struggle to survive on less than a $1 per day.
| They had to do the same thing under India's nationally regulated economy, too. The only difference is that then there were more of them eking out a living and the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty was living large. |
Education and healthcare for all intents and purposes have been privatized, with only the “poorest of the poor using the dilapidated public education and health systems”, he wrote.
| It's only by coincidence that we could stop sending CARE packages to the starving children in India about the time the managed economy was dumped. |
He said that a more important objective of Bush’s trip is to harness India – through increased military, civilian nuclear, and geopolitical collaboration – to Washington’s drive for global supremacy.
| India, of course, gets nothing out of the deal... |
In short, the US wants to transform a “rising India” into an economic, military and geopolitical counterweight to China. |