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Announcing the Weekly Comment Contest Winner!

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Chelsea Wieber
Topics: Globalization, Economic Development
Countries: United Kingdom, India, China

This week's comment contest winner is anonymous, which is technically against the rules, but we liked the comment anyway.

Anonymous commented on a 2006 article that questions whether China or India will become the dominant global force of the 21st century.

This is a belated comment on the article in June 2006. I believe many Indians these days have moved on from the pre-2006 India Shining or India Poised hype.

I am responding in particular to the comment in the 2006 article that the economy China has only recently overtaken that of Britain despite Britain having a small population and resources compared with China because 'Britain has all of the economic dynamism associated with free societies.'

If that be the case, why is India's economy, being a democracy which adds creativity and dynamism to an economy (according to the author) and not to mention a population which will soon bigger than that of China is not bigger than that of China's or indeed that of Japan's, Germany's, Britain's, France's and Italy's?

As to people in India feel empowered by the ballot box why do so many Indian people choose to live in slums then? Surely such empowered and happy people will choose better than living in slums? Perhaps Indian people need so many religions in their country to tell they really live in a wonderful paradise?

As to the better command of English, of course, India is notorious for poor literacy rate in the world especially amongst the female population. Successful economies like Japan and Germany, of course prove that you need more than being able to speak English to make your a country a success.

Global Envision is offering a $25 cash prize to the weekly comment contest winner. Read more about the contest here, and good luck!

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