India no match for China on social indicators: Amartya Sen

[nalandapride]

According to "The Economist", China is 40 years ahead of India, in terms of development indicators.

Amartya Sen, India's foremost economic expert, is essentially saying the same thing.

Considering that our GDP was the same as India's in 1990, that is quite a gap right?

Back in 1960s, 20 Million people died in your country because of Hunger and starvation and India will never match that achievement of Chinese also.

 

[Birbal]

Too bad a good article is going to be ruined because it is being used for anti-India trolling.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Back in 1960s, 20 Million people died in your country because of Hunger and starvation and India will never match that achievement of Chinese also.

Wrong.

According to Amarya Sen (and UNICEF), India kills more people every EIGHT years, than China did during the worst famine in our history, half a century ago.

Quote Amartya Sen.

"India seems to manage to fill its cupboard with more skeletons every eight years than China put there in its years of shame, 1958-1961.

Drèze, Jean and Sen, Amartya, Hunger and Public Action. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989.

And here is a link to the Unicef report which quotes the same figures: BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Hunger critical' in South Asia

 

[NeutralCitizen]

Both China and India like to show tall buildings and Develop cities problem is majority of the the people are still rural, My Indian Friend Rahul Chandri is making a documentary on the dark side of India Economic Boom which includes Social In equalities the Slums, the caste. My friend Larry Wong Operates a independent Newspaper In Hong Kong saying China has a huge Gap between the Rich and Poor.

 

[nalandapride]

India is no match to 174 million Strong Superslum, India is no match to starvation of Great Leap Forward, India Government is also no match to Chinese government whitewashing the social indicator data, India also can't match China in producing Cheap and junk goods.

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Wrong.

According to Amarya Sen (and UNICEF), India kills more people every EIGHT years, than China did during the worst famine in our history, half a century ago.

Quote Amartya Sen.



Drèze, Jean and Sen, Amartya, Hunger and Public Action. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989.

And here is a link to the Unicef report which quotes the same figures: BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Hunger critical' in South Asia

Where you got this fact from Xinhua.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Where you got this fact from Xinhua.

Do you think that the BBC is Chinese propaganda now?

BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Hunger critical' in South Asia

A Unicef report in May said the world was failing its children by not ensuring that they had enough to eat.

The report said India contributed to about 5.6 million child deaths per year, more than half the world's total.

More than half the world's total, means more than the rest of the world combined.

And that is per year.

 

[nalandapride]

Do you think that the BBC is Chinese propaganda now?

BBC NEWS | South Asia | 'Hunger critical' in South Asia



More than half the world's total, means more than the rest of the world combined.

And that is per year.

Did you bother to read the whole article. High IQ Chinese.

The Article says US based group (who as exaggerated the data). India's population was 1 Billion in 2001 and rose to 1.2 Billion in 2011. Means population rose by 25.6 Million every year out of which 5.6 Millions or 22% Kids died. What a joke does it ever match with India's infant mortality rate. Even worst performer Afghanistan never had this much deaths.

Chinese guy like you are really intelligent.

 

[beijingwalker]

India's darkest shame: malnourished children

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
1/16/2012

Countless Indian children not eating well in world's fastest growing economy

India, the world's largest democracy and the world's fastest growing economy finds that many of its children are going malnourished. Families living in abject poverty feed their children cereal and little else, leading to many children underweight and with stunted growth. "Famines are very easy to publicize, people dying of hunger is one thing. But people being underweight, stunted, their lifestyle, their probability of survival being diminished, all that is not so visible," Nobel laureate and welfare economist Dr Amartya Sen says.
Some sobering statistics find that 42 percent of Indian children less than five years of age are underweight and 59 percent have stunted growth.

Some sobering statistics find that 42 percent of Indian children less than five years of age are underweight and 59 percent have stunted growth.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "My worry is the sentiment of country gets upset when it (GDP growth rate) goes from eight percent to seven percent. The sentiment of India doesn't get affected by the higher number of under-nourished children than anywhere else," Amartya says.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, reveals in a recent study that 42 percent of Indian children are suffering from malnutrition.

The burgeoning Indian economy hosts the world's largest youth population under 25 - and a generation of Indians is at risk for growing up stunted and unhealthy on account of not enough of the right food. The Indian cabinet has since approved the Food Security Bill, but there is still far to go in securing the health and safety of coming generations.

Some sobering statistics find that 42 percent of children less than five years of age are underweight and 59 percent have stunted growth.

The study examined more than 73,000 households in 112 districts across nine states, wherein 74,020 mothers shared their stories and 109,093 children stepped onto weighing machines for the survey. Children from households identifying as Muslim or belonging to "Backward Castes or Tribes" generally have worse nutrition.

When asked why they did not give their children more non-cereal foods, 93.7 percent mothers said they did not do so because non-cereal foods were expensive.

The study also examined the disparity between education and health, sanitation and hygiene, drinking water and nutrition.

In addition, 50 percent of Indian women are anemic and 836 million people live on less than 38 U.S. cents a day. In light of these figures, the food security bill cleared by the Indian cabinet, is a pro-poor legislation that would target the hungry and malnourished of India. The bill would guarantee cut-price grain to 63.5 percent of India's 1.2 billion people.

The National Family Health Survey in 2006 confirmed that the child malnutrition rate in India is almost double that of sub-Saharan Africa.

While not presenting itself as a strident crisis, if Indian malnutrition is not addressed it will cause damage of unlimited magnitude. A new law, subsidy, focus and collective consciousness may be required to deal with it.

 

[SinoChallenger]

LOL...... the percentages may look similar but the conditions are not!

Even poor people in China have electricity, plumbing, food, healthcare -- like the kind of place the indians on this forum would live in in real life.

indian slums is like poisonous snakes and mountains of human animal waste and debris filled with people sick and starving.

 

[nalandapride]

^^^^

As already discussed, the way Malnutrition parameter is calculated is always faulty. We had a large discussion over this previously on PDF.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Chinese guy like you are really intelligent.

So you are a more reliable source than UNICEF?

Even your own leading economist (Amartya Sen) says the same thing.

 

[nalandapride]

LOL...... the percentages may look similar but the conditions are not!

Even poor people in China have electricity, plumbing, food, healthcare -- like the kind of place the indians on this forum would live in in real life.

indian slums is like poisonous snakes and mountains of human animal waste and debris filled with people sick and starving.

5 Star Slums of China topped with evil Hukou System. Parents here, children somewhere else and family is never complete

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So you are a more reliable source than UNICEF?

Even your own leading economist (Amartya Sen) says the same thing.

I told you to read the aricle, its some useless US group not UNICEF dumbfcuk. That is US based group. India population rose by 20 Million per year. How come 1 out of every 5 Children born in India died of Malnutrition. Have you taken Marijuana.

 

[nalandapride]

Let me put it straight China has 3.5 times bigger economy than India and better than India.

But China's Ginni ratio is worse than India means there is huge Rural Urban divide. Even with Hukou System Chinese government managed to keep world largest population of Slum-dwellers. Indian slum dwellers are better because they can keep their children with themselves and send them to the school in the city they are presently residing because we don't have apartheid system known as Hukou.

 

[chanikya]

being the biggest weapon importer in the world,India should put some more money for the well being of its citizens.foreign weapons are very expensive.

We also should learn lot of things from you (biggest duplicator of the world)

 

[below_freezing]

We also should learn lot of things from you (biggest duplicator of the world)

even if that was true, how does keeping the profits inside your country for selling consumer goods get worse than sending hard earned tax money straight from your wallet to global arms companies, in exchange for things that will do nothing for the economy and rust in a few decades?