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WolfpackN64 on 28 May 2016
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sc94597 said:
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; 

https://books.google.com/books?id=jIBac4n5vU8C&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=intergenerational+elasticity+coefficient+third+world&source=bl&ots=35Y5yiueVU&sig=iScJxo5xwjJzNHqalcVmXiHjnLM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUsc-rjf3MAhVOTFIKHatUDpcQ6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=intergenerational%20elasticity%20coefficient%20third%20world&f=false

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. 

Hmm, I must confess I didn't realise how far India tried to emulate the Soviet model, but taking the factors of the Indian society in mind, it's no wonder it all went very slow (looks like the USSR easily outpaced them). However their economy today is quite market oriented (it looks like they don't really know which way to go.

I can unfortunatly only point you to the website of our University press since the book isn't available online. It's also in Dutch :/

http://www.academiapress.be/sociologie-een-hedendaagse-inleiding-1458.html