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Re: Software Exports: Reply to Dr. Roy
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Dr. Roy
You have alleged that software industry's export figures are "hype" which
implies that software companies are misrepresenting their financial results
and deceiving their shareholders. This is a very serious allegation as
criminal action can be taken against those companies if your allegation can
be proven.
The meaning of the word "hype" from the Webster dictionary is given below.
Main Entry: hype
Function: noun
Date: 1955
1 : Deception
2 : Publicity especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or
contrived kind
It is one thing to say that you do not believe the export figures, (which
are based on generally accepted accounting principles). It is quite another
to allege that they are "hype" which implies deception and fraud.
The onus is on you to substantiate your claims.
>From: "Dr. Subroto Roy" <sroy@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in>
>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>Subject: Software Exports: Reply to Mr. Gautam Kumar
>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:42:29 -0800 (PST)
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> > >Dr. Roy has dismissed the study's projections as "nonsense",
> > >"pie-in-the-sky" and "industry hype", without providing an iota of
> > >substantiation to support his argument. Surely the good doctor can
> > >attempt to put together an intelligent argument to substantiate his
>claims.
>
>Not so. The burden of proof is not on me. It is on those who wish to
>make
>the claim of $x billion software exports to
>(a) indicate what they are measuring and how they are measuring it;
>(b) what their precise results were as of what date
>(c) where their experiment can be publicly found and replicated or
>advanced
>by e.g. by a Masters-level student or a Doctoral-level research
>candidate.
>
>I have not been able to physically get my hands on the McKinsey-Nasscom
>study for the simple reason that the Nasscom website (when I looked at
>it
>some months ago) says I have to pay them Rupees 10,000 to get a copy.
>Has
>anyone at IPI actually seen the study? Everyone has of course heard
>the
>hype that has emanated from it. Perhaps we could use Rs. 10,000 from
>some
>kind IPI donor to get the study and then read it through and through;
>e.g.
>post it on the website and then dissect it properly.
>
>Mr. Kumar says:
>
> > I think the $50 billion export and $87 billion export target mentioned
>in
> > the Mckinsey/Nasscom report, is a case of setting an ambitious target
>in
> > the hope that it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
>I am sure he is right. But no responsible Indian citizen can want to
>build
>economic policy for this country of hundreds of millions of materially
>poor
>people on that kind of hype. We have many other things to think about
>like
>e.g. the monetization of the budget deficit.
>
>Mr. Kumar may please identify himself a little better than by his email
>address.
>
>Subroto Roy
>
>
>
>
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