{"id":223,"date":"2005-01-08T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T23:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=223"},"modified":"2005-01-08T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T23:04:22","slug":"fighting-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200501\/fighting-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read the most intelligently written post in the Indian blogosphere I&#8217;ve ever read. It is by Amit Varma who has some thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/post-tsunami-thoughts-1-fighting.html\">fighting poverty<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t agree with his unduly pessimistic conclusion. I&#8217;ll write on that sometime, but go ahead and read what he has written now.<br \/>\n[<i>Pessimistic? It looks like an optimistic conclusion to me &#8211; ed.<\/p>\n<p>No ed, the conclusion is pessimistic. If our progress depends on our blundered into having elected an &#8220;enlightened economist&#8221;, then we are in serious trouble. That&#8217;s because his position is too dependent on a capricious lady, a bunch of retarded leftists and a host of other unpredictible factors. We can&#8217;t predict those factors individually, but we can be dead certain that atleast one of them will kick in and so the probability of the rug being pulled from under him approaches certainty. If we need to find the future of India, we need to look at structural issues, not at personalities. ]<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read the most intelligently written post in the Indian blogosphere I&#8217;ve ever read. It is by Amit Varma who has some thoughts on fighting poverty. I don&#8217;t agree with his unduly pessimistic conclusion. I&#8217;ll write on that sometime, but go ahead and read what he has written now. [Pessimistic? It looks like an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}