There is more in common between Sen and Bhagwati than is usually noticed, especially in what is missed out. Firstly, their debate is characteristic of the clichéd Left-Right positions, which seem to posit only two agents of development: the State and the private sector, missing out the crucial third agent, in whose name development is carried out: people organised as communities and collectives, people seen not as ‘beneficiaries’ of the State or ‘consumers’ of private services but as drivers of their own destiny, empowered to self-provision basic needs and to govern from below. The second fundamental issue is that of ecological sustainability. Thirdly, the kind of growth India is seeing today is also highly iniquitous. - See more at: ideasforindia.in/article.aspx?article_id=192#sthash.wxyzDNzo.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:07:27 +0000
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