Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Modello Kerala ed emigrazione

Interessante
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/07/asia/07migrate.php
Palmiro Pangloss
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Anche questo:
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=09&year=2007&base_name=the_nyt_doesnt_like_keralas_so
The NYT Doesn't Like Kerala's Socialist Ways
That is the main thing that one would learn from reading an NYT
article on the increase in migratory work patterns among people in
this Indian state. The article reports that one in six workers in the
state is now employed outside of the country. Is this more or less
than elsewhere in India? The article doesn't tell us.
Is this good or bad? The article implies that high rates of migratory
work are bad, but that depends on the alternative. If the alternative
is good paying jobs at home, clearly having to travel to distant
countries is bad. But if the alternative is low-paying jobs and
underemployment then having access to migratory work is good. If
citizens of Kerala do migrate for work in higher numbers than workers
elsewhere in India, is this because they are more desperate than
workers elsewhere in India or because they are more likely to have the
skills desired by employers elsewhere in the region? (As the article
notes, their literacy rates and education levels are much higher than
elsewhere in India.)
Rather than informing readers, the main purpose of this article
appears to be to try to discredit a development model that has focused
on providing basic human needs. As the article points out, life
expectancy in Kerala is nearly as long as in the United States and its
literacy rate is 91 percent, compared to 65 percent for India as a
whole. Kerala accomplished these goals in spite of the fact that is
far poorer than the United States and is even poorer than the rest of
India. (The article exaggerates the income gap by using exchange rate
GDP. On a purchasing power parity basis, India's per capita GDP is
$3,800 per person compared to $44,000 in the U.S. It is also worth
noting remittances by migrant workers are not counted in GDP, so if a
larger share of Kerala's workforce is employed outside the country
than is the case for other parts of India, it would be expected that
it would have a lower per capita GDP.) While the article implies that
this development path has negatively impacted Kerala's growth relative
to the rest of India, the information it presents readers does not
provide a basis for making this assessment.
--Dean Baker

 underemployment then having access to migratory work is good. 
Ma ROTFL. Proprio perche' l'alternativa e' la disoccupazione dati i 
tassi del Kerala, il tasso di emigrazione e' il dark side del modello 
Kerala. Un modello che, semplicemente, non si autosostiene. Ovvero ha 
senso solo in un mondo dove il modello stesso non e' applicato ovunque e 
ci siano quindi posti di lavoro disponibili per i cittadini del Kerala 
che non trovano lavoro nel proprio stato. Il che, intendiamoci, non vuol 
dire che sia un fallimento in assoluto, solo che forse dovrebbe essere 
cambiato tenendo conto chel fatto che pe redistribuire reddito, prima il 
reddito va prodotto.
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 reddito va prodotto.
Eheheheh... quel vecchio problema del socialismo reale.
Tb
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 Gia', piuttosto significativo in se come dato, no?
No.   Senza un paragone con gli altri stati dell'India, e una
discussione su se si emigra di piu' perche' c'e disoccupazione o
perche', piuttosto, gli abitanti del Kerala sono meglio qualificati e
guadagnano di piu' altrove (o non sono, poniamo, legati alla terra da
un'economia agricola.  Che in India e' ancora abbastanza comune) il
"dato" non e' significativo.  Anzi, non esiste quanto dato.
Per il resto, bel cut.
GT