India: S&t policy and Focus on Ethics

Part of Social conflict

• Part of Social conflict

• Direction, pace, nature of products: Source of Injustice

• What if all good words are there: Poverty, Global disparities, justice etc.

• What different types of inequalities?

• Unequal outcomes are measured with ideas of access, affordability, distributive justice etc. but no focus on the nature of R&D priorities themselves

• Growing role of Private sector.

Sen’s idea of Equality (Inequality Reexamined)

• Sen’s idea of Equality (Inequality Reexamined)

• Why Equality and What Equality?

• ‘Equality is judged by comparing some particular aspect of a person (such as income, or wealth, or happiness, or opportunities, or rights, or need-fulfilments) with the same aspect of another person.’

• The inherent diversity of human beings means that treating them equally with respect to one such ‘focal variable’ may lead to considerable inequalities in other dimensions.

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