Word: socialists
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...TIME: Your budget spends on the poor without punishing the rich. Is this a sign that India has moved beyond socialism in its attempt to fight poverty? Chidambaram: Socialist goals remain valid. What we are trying to do is devise and invent better means to achieve those goals...
...Indian governments have ignored the poor in the past. Indeed, for decades, governments with a socialist ideology threw money at poverty?only to find that much of it was wasted through corruption and mismanagement. The sharpest reductions in Indian poverty seem to have come not when New Delhi had spent the most, but when the economy had grown the fastest. After India began dismantling its socialist economy in 1991, the percentage of the population living in poverty fell from...
...complex mix of factors, some geographical, some historical and some political. Imperial rule often left the conquered regions bereft of education, health care, indigenous political leadership and adequate physical infrastructure. Often, newly independent countries in the post--World War II period made disastrous political choices, such as socialist economic models or a drive for self-sufficiency behind inefficient trade barriers. But perhaps most pertinent today, many regions that got left furthest behind have faced special obstacles and hardships: diseases such as malaria, drought-prone climates in locations not suitable for irrigation, extreme isolation in mountains and landlocked regions, an absence...
...those the U.S. would prefer to see in power, we could be in for a profound change in the region's prospects. But that requires dispensing with the Cold War mentality that puts the outcome above the process, i.e. better a pro-U.S. autocrat than a democratically elected socialist (or, these days, Islamist). Henry Kissinger once justified U.S. support for the Pinochet coup in Chile by saying "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." If a similar attitude prevails in Washington...
...Coalition draws from a number of other feminist, activist, and academic groups on campus, including the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the Socialist Alternative, and the Harvard College Journal of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality...