| WolfpackN64 said: I would like to know where you get your tables from. The academic sources I consulted and my classes of sociology painted a very different picture. For example: social mobility in Belgium is really not high (aside from succes stories that exist in any country). You also have the situation that the government here and the bureaucracy are often on bad terms with each other. (I would also like to point out India isn't socialist at all, and while China is ruled by a "Communist Party", social security is really lacking) |
India's preamble says:
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
India followed the Soviet planned economic model until 1991 after the Soviet Union collapsed. While the economy is much freer today, due to some liberalization, there is still a lot of central planning going on, much more than in Western Countries, and yes that includes European social democracies.
You are fine to provide your academic sources by the way, rather than just mention them. ;)
Here is one of my sources;
Africa, Latin America, and Asia have base intergenerational elasticities between parents and children's income of about 0.66, 0.66, 0.5 respectively. Europe of .4, and the Nordic countries of .2. Lower is better here.
