OK, para a China, que avança rápido.
E a India, como se compara à China?
É justamente o que tenta fazer este infograma da Economist.
Todos sabem que a Índia é um país um pouco caótico há mais ou menos 4 mil anos (enfim, quase isso). Parece que ela vai continuar caótica pelos próximos 4 mil anos.
Mas, a despeito de todo o caos de suas 2.500 castas, 250 dialetos e infinitas religiões, a Índia segue a teoria do Galileu: eppur si muove: a despeito de tudo, ela avança. Mas vai demorar um pouquinho para ela alcançar a China.
Ou como diria o nosso Mário de Andrade, no famoso texto "O Poeta Come Amendoim" (1924):
"Progredir, progredimos um tiquinho, que o progresso também é uma fatalidade..."
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Comparing India and China
Chasing the dragon
Oct 3rd 2011, 15:26 by The Economist online
How the Asian superpowers compare on various measures of development
IN THE recent Singapore Grand Prix, a car belonging to the Force India team reached the finish line just 111 seconds after the leader. Today’s chart uses a stopwatch to compare India’s progress in development against another pace-setter, China. The chart shows the number of years that have elapsed since China passed the development milestones that India has now reached. India’s income per head, for example, was about $3,200 in 2009 (holding purchasing power constant across time and between countries). China reached that level of development nine years ago. The lag in social progress is much longer. A child’s odds of surviving past their fifth birthday are as bad in India today as they were in China in the 1970s. Moreover, the chart does not necessarily imply that India in nine years’ time will be as rich as China is today. That is because China grew faster in the last nine years than India is likely to grow over the next nine. We stopped the clock at $3200 per head. But China did not stop racing ahead.
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