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GURUDEVA SMRITI GRANTHA
humanity 18 not only large but widening rapidly with time Often the price of agricultul products in the poor countries remains constant, whereas the price of industrial goodsmanufactured by rich countries rises continually. This makes it all the more difficult for the developing countries to import the much needed capital equipment and machinery to raise their production For instance (as Paul Hoffman pointed out), the under-developed part of the world received in 1958 a total of $ 2 4 billion in aid, but at the same time it lost $2 billon is import capacity to pay more for manufactured goods and getting less for its agricultural produce. Such things tend to a dilute, to a considerable extent, the mpact of aid given to developing countries It should be possible, of course, to devise ways which would overcome this and related difficulties, but tbis will require great vision and courageous statesmanship The wide gap between the developed and underdeveloped world is detrimental to the real interests of both The earnings of a proportion of our population equal to that of the total population of U K. are no more than what the people of UK spend on cigarettes and tobacco It is now established that smoking raises considerably the incidence of (ung cancer If what is spent on smoking by the rich world were passed on to the newly developing countries to assist their food production, it would benefit both In this connection it 18 good to remember that the prosperity of the rich countries is due in no small measure to the contribution in material resources, craftsmanship and brains made by other countries. As an example of the uncommonly high level of handicrafts in India, we may recall Helley's (Secretary to the Royal Society) letter of 1686 "I have seen a great curiosity viz , a calicoe shirt brought from India, which is woven without a seam all of one piece, which I should have thought impossible had I not seen it It explains the Scripture relation of our Saviour's coat which was without
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“Seeding Nuclei' for Exponential Growth
In former times when one country helped another, or was forced to assist another bp political pressure or war, the "donor country" fost what was gained by the recipient country' If it was a transfer of land or other material resources, one country could only gain it at the expense of the other But in the contemporary world as progress and prosperity depend mainly upon barnessing science and technology, the situation is very different. By imparting scientific knowledge and techniques to a less developed country, a donor country loses nothing this is, of course, an over simplification It is of some importance to recogise that an exponential growth rate of science (with a doubling period much less than the population doubling period, fortunately makes it possible for an "advanced country" of it so desires, to make a major contribution towards the rapid development of a
