Archive for February 17th, 2012
Bill gets it wrong
Bill gets it wrong
Bill Gates says half the kids in the world who don’t get vaccines are in India. This is odd since India supplies 60 per cent of the world’s vaccines and about 80 per cent of annual UN vaccine purchases come from India. Clearly vaccines produced in India are not used where they are needed most. The government, private sector, and philanthropists should ensure India is vaccinated before we cater to needs abroad.
Don’t trust the Govt to do it
Don’t trust the Govt to do it
A senior policy analyst and governance expert from Singapore was in town recently. He was talking of how development is as focused as it is in his island country while we continue to have the anarchy that we have here in India. He talked of how good governance and an accountable bureaucracy is simply impossible in India for the next 15 years if, that is, we assume that a new crop of young administrators will want to break the ‘analysis paralysis’ that we have on policy and implementation.
