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India is not match for neighbouring China when it comes to social development indicators, eminent economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said.

"There is a huge gap there (on social front) as China is one of the best performers in terms of social indicators," Sen said while speaking at the Indian Economic Association convention.

Making an assessment of the Indian economy and the benefits that have percolated down the social sector, he said, "India's disadvantage can be seen even in comparison with countries that are doing far less well than China, but still a lot better than India."

While India has been overtaking other countries in the progress of its real income, it has been lagging behind others in terms of basic social indicators of quality of life, he said. In fact, India is being overtaken in these respects by many other countries even within the region of South Asian itself, he added.

He said India's average ranking among six South Asian economies (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan) has "fallen from being the second best to being second worst and this is so despite the fact that India has grown immensely faster than all other economies in South Asia in terms of GNP or Gross Domestic Product (GDP)."

The relation between economic growth and advancement of living standards depends on many factors. One of them is what is done with the public revenue that is generated by economic growth, said Sen who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for his contributions to welfare economics.

Comparing the two leading Asian economies, Sen pointed out "The fact that China devotes 2.3% of government expenditure on health care compared with India's relatively miserable 1.4%, is directly relevant to the much greater health achievement of China compared with India."

"It contributes to China's much higher life expectancy than India's (the former being 73.5 years compared with India's 64.4 years)."

"One result of the relatively low allocation to public health care in India is the development of a remarkable reliance of many poor people on private doctors, many of whom have little medical training," Sen said.

"India has moved towards reliance on private health care without developing solid basic public health facilities."

The comparison in terms of social indicators such as those covered in the Human Development Reports of the United Nations or in the list of Millennium Development Goals, tend to be entirely in favour of China against India, he noted.:tdown::tdown::tdown:

India no match for China on social indicators: Sen - Hindustan Times
 
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Do you have to reassure yourself very often that India is no match for China ? This article has been posted countless times
 
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I have not been to India but heard quite a lot of stories about india from my friends who have been to india. it seems india is a little bit behind china in terms of infrustructures. Want to see by own.
 
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India value weapons imports much more than social welfare, open fact.

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It spends the majority of there newly earned GDP on foreign arms.
 
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This shown india economy is run by the ellite 10% for the ellite 10% the rest dont count and economy like this wont last long
 
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This shown india economy is run by the ellite 10% for the ellite 10% the rest dont count and economy like this wont last long


Ohhh Thank you for your valuable insight .... i better pack my bags and leave for china ... Oh no but what if i want more then one children or want to eat and enjoy something that is not fake....

No prob i will leave for pakistan ...ohh no what about bomb blast and daily fatwas i will recieve...

Damn it seems i m doomed to die in india..........:wave:

If anyone find any country with no problems, pls forward me the name of that country. i would like to move there:bounce:
 
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Ohhh Thank you for your valuable insight .... i better pack my bags and leave for china ... Oh no but what if i want more then one children or want to eat and enjoy something that is not fake....

No prob i will leave for pakistan ...ohh no what about bomb blast and daily fatwas i will recieve...

Damn it seems i m doomed to die in india..........:wave:

If anyone find any country with no problems,pls forward me the name of that country. i would like to move there:bounce:
:woot: So Fatwas are not done in india?....Or niether any religious clash happened in india? Even Your secular cummunity is looking damn confused b\w Secularist and religious.... Ok Who are you a secularist or a religious?
Here the problem is when someone points on your matters then you peoples get intolrent and always post same lame execuses just like "Every country faces problems"....
You need to learn how to discuss rather than bashing others and giving excuses...
 
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