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> legal proceedings can be notoriously protracted in India This is the root of so much evil in India. It is probably the largest issue facing this country. Eve

• mschuster91 10y ago
  To be fair, it's not just India that faces this problem. Italy, and to a lesser extent France, are kept back in economic development due to extremely long (civil) legal proceedings - in fact, Berlusconi and his crooks abused this multiple times to STFO of jail time. In Germany, it's mostly the criminal justice system that suffers from massive case overload - it takes sometimes over a year to get the first trial in a simple pub brawl case or a small store theft - and that disconnect between infraction and punishment has been shown multiple times to result in more infractions (because thieves will think "ah, won't happen anything anyway"). I get why people want to claim India is a 3rd world country (and, for what it's worth, parts of India ARE, given e.g. sanitary conditions!), but one should not compare based on the efficiency of the legal system. Some might say that the USA could be considered a 3rd world country under this comparison, given that you can land in jail for civil debt, end up life-long in prison for small thefts (3 Strike Rule), end up on the chair for dealing drugs, ...
  • pjlegato 10y ago
    "Third world country" is not shorthand for "poor, backwards land." It means a country that was not aligned with either the United States (first world) or the Soviet Union (second world) during the Cold War.
    • mschuster91 10y ago
      I know, but for what it's worth it means the same thing.