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| Aditya Chakrabortty asserts that the government of India has ignored poor people's ingenuity (From New Delhi to Westminster, governments are cavalier about the poor when they should be listening to them instead, G2, 8 October). In fact, the Indian government has recently established a National Innovation Council designed precisely to promote poor people's capacity for creative innovation (jugaad in Hindi) across the country. | Aditya Chakrabortty asserts that the government of India has ignored poor people's ingenuity (From New Delhi to Westminster, governments are cavalier about the poor when they should be listening to them instead, G2, 8 October). In fact, the Indian government has recently established a National Innovation Council designed precisely to promote poor people's capacity for creative innovation (jugaad in Hindi) across the country. |
| But before we laud the Indian state for its vision we should recognise that the image of the barefoot entrepreneur is a wonderful vehicle for the neoliberal state. If poor people can "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" there is little need for the state to wade in with things like effective training, cheap credit, and a decent public infrastructure. | But before we laud the Indian state for its vision we should recognise that the image of the barefoot entrepreneur is a wonderful vehicle for the neoliberal state. If poor people can "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" there is little need for the state to wade in with things like effective training, cheap credit, and a decent public infrastructure. |
| That's the real reason behind the current official enthusiasm for jugaad in India, and surely it won't be long before the British government follows suit, lauding the poor for their adaptive capacity while slashing welfare to bits. Professor Craig Jeffrey Oxford | That's the real reason behind the current official enthusiasm for jugaad in India, and surely it won't be long before the British government follows suit, lauding the poor for their adaptive capacity while slashing welfare to bits. Professor Craig Jeffrey Oxford |
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