NY Times ““It is useful to be suspicious of alliterations,” Manu Joseph writes in The International Herald Tribune. “They are often too good to make complete sense: ‘digital divide,’ ‘Swinging ’60s.’” “But it is hard to resist their contagion, and it is not surprising that the most popular diagnosis in India of the nation’s alarming economic plunge is ‘policy paralysis’ — the hypothesis that the central government led by the Indian National Congress is too incompetent to pass crucial legislation,” Mr. Joseph writes.
The government has denied that it is paralyzed. It has conveyed that, considering its circumstances, it has been at once savvy and humane. What the government has been unable to say is that it knows what must be done but cannot control its enormous welfare spending or take tough long-term economic measures because it does not want to infuriate the what might be termed the Greeks among the Indians — the rural voters. Unlike the actual Greeks, whose fiscal ways have exasperated some of their European Union partners, they cannot be kicked out of the union. In a way, they are the union.”
via The High Price India Pays to Maintain the Status Quo – NYTimes.com.
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