Amartya Sen :

"Justice and Identity"

This paper discusses the relationship between justice and identity. While it is widely agreed that justice requires us to go beyond loyalty to our simplest identity – being just oneself – there is less common ground on how far we must go beyond self-centredness. How relevant are group identities to the requirements of justice, or must we transcend those too? The author draws attention to the trap of confinement to nationality and citizenship in determining the requirements of justice, particularly under the social-contract approach, and also to the danger of exclusive concentration on some other identity such as religion and race. He concludes that it is critically important to pay attention to every human being's multiple identities related to the different groups to which a person belongs; the priorities have to be chosen by reason, rather than any single identity being imposed on a person on grounds of some extrinsic precedence. Justice is closely linked with the pursuit of impartiality, but that pursuit has to be open rather than closed, resisting closure through nationality or ethnicity or any other allegedly all-conquering single identity.

India is the only country which is trying to get universal healthcare through the private sector.

There are a number of changes linking theory with empirical observations , that's a positive thing.there is much greater interest in not seeing analytical mathematical economics as a separate discipline from normal non-mathematical reasoning because we have to put them together. There are many lessons from traditional economics which have not been sufficiently well absorbed in policy making.

One, we need a succesful market economy for continued fast growth and development. Second, while the market economy does well for industries and agriculture, by and large, with a few exceptions, it does not do well for education and healthcare. Thirdly, the issue of asymmetric information: the fact that buyers don't know  what the seller is selling. The basic thing that alis the Indian people is lack of education, lack of healthcare and lack of social security. And nomatter how extraordinarily innovative-sounding these new schemes may be, it is not going to to take away from the fact that with an unhealthy, uneducated labour force, it is very difficult to generate income from them and very difficult for solidly-shared development growth at a high level to continue.

A country where half the population doesn't have a school to go to, to concentrate on the Internet is abit of a mistake.