Interesting Perpsective - not necessarily I agree with !!

Development should mean more than survival

....... Those who truly believe in development should be guided by a simple maxim: Only what is good enough for us in the developed world will do for those in the developing world. We have access to cars, clean water, electricity, the internet, roads and telephones, and so should they. Everyone should enjoy the benefits of living in a modern industrialised economy.

This is the only realistic way to deal with the scourge of 'natural disasters' such as the tsunami, and other problems linked to economic scarcity. Life is about more than mere survival......

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Daniel Ben-Ami is the author of Cowardly Capitalism: The Myth of the Global Financial Casino, John Wiley and Sons, 2001

http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CA883.htm

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Though I agree with the above article that the basic infrastucture is absolutely essential for development, but what that relevant infrastructure should be is not to be necessarily guided by what has worked well elsewhere. This typical bi-polarization of world into developed or developing is immature, and going so far is to say that we should have a world that look exactly same as west is preposterous !!