----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Apropos John Henry's comments, I too remember the 'siesta theory' in my development courses while studying in India and wondered if the Indian peoples' work habits were not a major culprit in underdevelopment. This was easy to believe because of the huge civil service bureaucracy which the British had created and which became a sizable smoke screen for underemployment. [It was the constant tea breaks in India.] But many of my Indian professors were very committed to the planning process and modelled their thoughts on the soviet experience/theories. That created another set of problems in the decades to come, but it was a noble experiment and gave India a very different trajectory of growth than many other developing countries. Sumitra Shah ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]