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Amartya Sen urges India to earnestly pursue globalisation

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said India should go enthusiastically for globalisation.

Addressing the members of the eastern regional Centre of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, he said the country should take special initiatives for overall improvement of education and health care facilities or else it would suffer.

He felt that unlike China, who has taken adequate care in developing it's social infrastructure, India did not make adequate preparations before joining the arena.

Sen said there was no truth in the assertions that the rich people would become richer and the poor would become poorer because of the globalisation policy adopted by the government a decade ago.

Hardships of the people could be avoided to a great extent if the government adopted a pragmatic move for ensuring better education and health care facilities for the common people.

He felt China ought to have democracy for its proper success in the democratic field. Lack of democracy in that country might affect their interest.

He, however, said China did take adequate care for the development of social infrastructure before liberalising its economy.

Sen said though India had developed excellence in certain areas, it still lacked many other positive signs for the success of the globalisation process.

Japan was a pretty backward country a few decades ago but it managed to emerge as the front-runner by adopting a concerted growth approach.

He felt that India had to catch up very fast to ensure an all round development. He said the benefit of globalisation was likely to be unequal because the entire population was not prepared to meet the challenges of change.

He, however, maintained that globalisation was neither a new concept in the world nor was it conceived by the western countries.

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