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...regional and international economic hopes are now being pinned: the Indian consumer. But when Bissell looks into India's future, he is troubled. "For those of us at the top of the dungheap, the system is working absolutely brilliantly," he says. For everyone else, corruption and the lack of basic public services like water, electricity and education threaten to undo a decade of growth. In a 247-page polemic, Making India Work, Bissell lays out those problems in devastating detail and suggests ways to fix them. (See pictures of India's turning points...
...Some of his proposals seem far to the left of his peers - like setting up a sort of sovereign wealth fund that would use the income from natural resources to fund basic services - but others are refreshingly pragmatic, like a suggestion to measure poverty not by income but by access to water, food, medicine, education and legal rights. "Poverty is the absence of these five things," he says, and indeed there are many whose rising incomes don't reflect the true state of their lives...
...field hospital provides free treatment to all its patients, as well as meals and basic care for family members. When patients are discharged—most often to the refugee camp 15 minutes from the hospital—they receive a “Dignity Package” containing cooking supplies, clothing, food, diapers, and sanitary napkins...
Volunteers from the hospital also staff a small clinic at the camp to provide basic care and OB/GYN services, Cranmer said...
...land a quad cleanly. Following his silver-medal finish, he was pessimistic about the place the quad would have in the new system but remained adamant that such innovations be recognized and rewarded. "I was sure that I had won my second Olympic Games," he said. "But my basic position and attitude is that movement must go forward - never stop, never go back...