Bangladesh is way ahead of India: Amartya Sen

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

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I dont agree on this except when the case is voluntary......

I think for the case of Bangladesh if they join in the government job....they initially are posted in a thana or upazilla level... for a certain period of time... then they are posted in cities..

 

[desioptimist]

We should ask help from bd govt regarding girl child education. They could have better practices than us.
We are already taking help from them wrt microcredit institutions.
Innovation can happen anywhere, we should be humble and accept that we are behind them(wherever we are), and not hide behind India's big size.

 

[desioptimist]

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I dont agree on this except when the case is voluntary......

It should be made compulsory to work a fixed period of time in rural areas for the doctors whose studies were subsidised by govt. They should be made to agree to this condition beforehand. For those who paid for themselves, it is upto them.

 

[Punjabbi Munda]

Female education in India,still has some way to go.

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But i don't agree with the fact that Bangladesh is ahead of India,in female education.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Well done Bangladesh. On many indexes banglaesh is making good progress, and they will reap the rewards in future. The education sector there is very promising too. Good on BD.

Educate one man, you educate one person, ... educate a woman, and you educate a family

- Gandhi

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Female education in India,still has some way to go.

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But i don't agree with the fact that Bangladesh is ahead of India,in female education.

Here are the stats for HDI between bangladesh and India... said by amrita sen...


"Life expectancy in Bangladesh is 66.9 years compared with India's 64.4. The proportion of underweight children in Bangladesh (41.3 per cent) is a little lower than in India (43.5), and its fertility rate (2.3) is also lower than India's (2.7). Mean years of schooling amount to 4.8 years in Bangladesh compared with India's 4.4 years. While India is ahead of Bangladesh in male literacy rate in the youthful age-group of 15-24, the female rate in Bangladesh is higher than in India. Interestingly, the female literacy rate among young Bangladeshis is actually higher than the male rate, whereas young females still do much worse than young males in India. There is much evidence to suggest that Bangladesh's current progress has much to do with the role that liberated Bangladeshi women are beginning to play in the country.

What about health, which interests every human being as much as anything else? Under-5 mortality rate is 66 in India compared with 52 in Bangladesh. In infant mortality, Bangladesh has a similar advantage, since the rate is 50 in India and 41 in Bangladesh. Whereas 94 per cent of Bangladeshi children are immunised with DPT vaccine, only 66 per cent of Indian children are.

n by 2030 bangladesh will produce 1.7-1.8 times more graduate per capita then India and will be worlds fifth largest graduate producing country...see the table below prepared by standard charted bank in 2010...

http://imagenic.net/viewer.php?file=bshfb0cdhm6j6hgj8mvy.jpg

It does not a matter what you agree ... what you do not...

 

[Cyph3r]

Here are the stats for HDI between bangladesh and India... said by amrita sen...


"Life expectancy in Bangladesh is 66.9 years compared with India's 64.4. The proportion of underweight children in Bangladesh (41.3 per cent) is a little lower than in India (43.5), and its fertility rate (2.3) is also lower than India's (2.7). Mean years of schooling amount to 4.8 years in Bangladesh compared with India's 4.4 years. While India is ahead of Bangladesh in male literacy rate in the youthful age-group of 15-24, the female rate in Bangladesh is higher than in India. Interestingly, the female literacy rate among young Bangladeshis is actually higher than the male rate, whereas young females still do much worse than young males in India. There is much evidence to suggest that Bangladesh's current progress has much to do with the role that liberated Bangladeshi women are beginning to play in the country.

What about health, which interests every human being as much as anything else? Under-5 mortality rate is 66 in India compared with 52 in Bangladesh. In infant mortality, Bangladesh has a similar advantage, since the rate is 50 in India and 41 in Bangladesh. Whereas 94 per cent of Bangladeshi children are immunised with DPT vaccine, only 66 per cent of Indian children are.

n by 2030 bangladesh will produce 1.7-1.8 times more graduate per capita then India and will be worlds fifth largest graduate producing country...see the table below prepared by standard charted bank in 2010...

http://imagenic.net/viewer.php?file=bshfb0cdhm6j6hgj8mvy.jpg

Congrats to BD a job well done
But we should not feel complacent
If our economy improves HDI will improve automatically

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Bangladesh imo has surpassed India when it comes to healthcare and education for women. Suggesting that the country has had female leadership is justification for this has no merit. People of Indian states must stop voting for parties based on which top gun flim actor or powerful family representative will be standing for elections for that party. The problem is that our masses sometimes seem to be the easiest to bluff when it comes to elections. For years the question has been raised as to why medical graduates are not being compelled to serve in government hospitals for a year or so. Stupid excuses flow in such as the number of foreigners who attend our privately owned medical schools and the inconvenience that will cause them. Education officials justify the lower education levels for our female populace on the basis that "families don't believe in investing in education when it comes to their girls." Send these incompetent officials to Bangladesh to learn how to get the recipe correct !

 

[Punjabbi Munda]

Why getting emotional yaar?because what i see in today's Bangladesh is nothing special or different than in India.I d say India has a better GDP per capita income.So idk how bangladesh has such low per capita income of only $600,if education in women is better there..

 

[eastwatch]

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I dont agree on this except when the case is voluntary......

Any sub-continent govt spends a few million Rupees to bring out an MBBS doctor. The money govt spends come out of the pockets of very poors of the country. So, it is imperative that these know-nothing new graduate doctors take care of our rural population for a few years under compulsion, if needed.

On the other hand, if a new graduate does not want to work for the people, his/her parents must pay back the money the country has spent to educate him/her. And these doctors should not be allowed to work in any govt job. There was a time when doctors thought themselves as the saviors of humanity in their respective countries, specially in the sub-continent.

Now, these people do not think they belong any more to a backward and poor society. Their snob minds now try to curve out a place among the rich by manupulating their healing power. They go after money. It is ok a few years after the graduation. But, they must pay back to the country what its poors have given to them. Working among the rural population is one such way.

 

[eastwatch]

Why getting emotional yaar?because what i see in today's Bangladesh is nothing special or different than in India.I d say India has a better GDP per capita income.So idk how bangladesh has such low per capita income of only $600,if education in women is better there..

You are emphasizing too much on the GDP. We emphasize on improvement of social sectors. To increase our GDP we have to invest in human resource, monetary capital and many other related things. But, GDP itself does not show everything in a society. A just society is our goal.

Note that in this fiscal our GDP will reach $272 billion at PPP. Not bad for a country that has started anew in 1971 with only $34 as its foreign currency. See what happens in the next few years. However, we would like to see a better performance in the social sectors.

 

[aristocrat]

Why getting emotional yaar?because what i see in today's Bangladesh is nothing special or different than in India.I d say India has a better GDP per capita income.So idk how bangladesh has such low per capita income of only $600,if education in women is better there..

Its not a dick measurig contest.Jo achhai hai humare pas wo to rahagi,par no harm in learning and improving in things we lack.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Here are the stats for HDI between bangladesh and India... said by amrita sen...


"Life expectancy in Bangladesh is 66.9 years compared with India's 64.4.

Just curious, what is the source of this data abt life expectancy? I tried looking up but not getting these results.

 

[indianpatriot]

Bangladesh is heading towards what is called kerala model!!!!!and its really dangerous for the economy!!!

More precisely, the Kerala model has been defined as:

* A set of high material quality-of-life indicators coinciding with low per-capita incomes, both distributed across nearly the entire population of Kerala.
* A set of wealth and resource redistribution programmes that have largely brought about the high material quality-of-life indicators.
* High levels of political participation and activism among ordinary people along with substantial numbers of dedicated leaders at all levels. Kerala's mass activism and committed cadre were able to function within a largely democratic structure, which their activism has served to reinforce.



British Green activist Richard Douthwaite interviewed a person who remembers once saying that "in some societies, very high levels — virtually First World levels — of individual and public health and welfare are achieved at as little as sixtieth of US nominal GDP per capita and used Kerala as an example".[20]:310–312 Richard Douthwaite states that Kerala "is far more sustainable than anywhere in Europe or North America".[21]Kerala's unusual socioeconomic and demographic situation was summarized by author and environmentalist Bill McKibben:[22]

Kerala, a state in India, is a bizarre anomaly among developing nations, a place that offers real hope for the future of the Third World. Though not much larger than Maryland, Kerala has a population as big as California's and a per capita annual income of less than $300. But its infant mortality rate is very low, its literacy rate among the highest on Earth, and its birthrate below America's and falling faster. Kerala's residents live nearly as long as Americans or Europeans. Though mostly a land of paddy-covered plains, statistically Kerala stands out as the Mount Everest of social development; there's truly no place like it.

 

[Punjabbi Munda]

You are emphasizing too much on the GDP. We emphasize on improvement of social sectors. To increase our GDP we have to invest in human resource, monetary capital and many other related things. But, GDP itself does not show everything in a society. A just society is our goal.

Note that in this fiscal our GDP will reach $272 billion at PPP. Not bad for a country that has started anew in 1971 with only $34 as its foreign currency. See what happens in the next few years. However, we would like to see a better performance in the social sectors.

NO NO NO!
You missed my point,i said the GDP per capita income,which shows the average income of a person in that country,Bangladesh,i said was still very very low at 600 USD