Joe Shearer
Professional
My comment was written bearing in mind the peculiar social structures and social characteristics of India.Yup, economic development can't be separated from cultural underpinning. Notice how East Asia is becoming the world center of economic gravity. Look at Vietnam the country was mired in war for most of the last century. Yet now she has one of the fastest economies in the world. Also, Argentina was once the richest country in the world now she has become a pauper
India is, in cultural terms, and in terms of social behaviour, strikingly different from East Asia. Only a madman would even try to encapsulate this culture and this social behaviour on the pages of a forum as short-winded as this and similar ones. If one must risk grievous loss of face and public ridicule in upholding the situation as it exists, in the settled areas (outside the forests and the hills), people comfortably form small teams at work, they work well on very sophisticated handiwork, typically, as a starting point, on handicrafts, their productivity is affected by the climate, they are distracted by social and religious functions, and they tend to adhere to existing work relationships far beyond the international norm.
One could go on, but this is the stuff of many dozens of doctoral theses.
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