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Can India sustain 9% growth?
by pawan tripathi on Jan 17, 2007 02:41 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

Yes. Why not? But does it matter to a common man?

May be Ambanis will get 900% richer and more equally powerful. So will Tatas, Birlas, Infosys and other super richs. And that itself will take away 8.99% of the growth.

As for a common man, he will continue to live in the hope that may be, possibly, may be a day will come when the benefits of growth reaches him in equal measure. Because what the successive governments talk about is growht with equity, or removal of inequalities. May be this wishful thinking becomes a reality. A day will come.

Pawan Tripathi.

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  RE:Can India sustain 9% growth?
by Suraj Subramanian on Jan 18, 2007 01:40 PM   Permalink
making money is not bad so dont blame the industialists for making money
if they make maoney the shareholders make money
if they make money a million people have jobs
more people with good paying jobs means more people have money to spend
means more poeple buying stuff
means livelihood for the shopkeepers, vegetable vendors etc
so better growth is beneficial for the common man only issue is that since he is at the end of the chain the growth takes time to get to him



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  RE:RE:Can India sustain 9% growth?
by Paramesh Waran on Jan 28, 2007 12:58 AM   Permalink
Means, Indian economy reflecting the US state, means unsustainble deficits all around, means borrowing money to even run the govt.s affairs on a day to day basis, means a situation where the net savings rate is negative, means where everyone wants to live in a 3000 square feet condo with a swimming pool, means getting into debt without the repayment capability, means ultimate devastation. Let us face the truth, most of so called businessmen are nothing but crooks and have reached where they have, with the honourable exception of Tatas, Godrejs, Narayanamoorthys, Premjis et al, in an unholy alliance with the loathsome netas and self serving babus. Now that the shining light for every ambitious Indian are the likes of Reliance, Ruia, Chaturvedi and similar we can eventually look forward to the complete criminalisation of the last vestiges of decency in society and finally achieve what seems to be collective ambition of the majority, the haves and have nots alike, to be chosen recipients of the largesse of Laxmi.

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