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Yes, him and Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq made the HDI index.
Indian poverty levels higher than Pakistan's, says UN report
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Ḥashshāshīn;2948813 said:
0.1 is huge for 1.2 billion people country.....
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There is poverty in both countries, but it is less in Pakistan - because the largest province of Pakistan and the second largest, Punjab and Sindh respectively are very fertile, and with the high support prices of cash crops, the farmers have been having a boom of sorts. In my village, we are all doing relatively well, everyone has flat screen tv's, new motorcycles and cars, tractors etc.
Agriculture is not taxed in Pakistan.
Agriculture is not taxed in Pakistan.
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World Poverty Index 2012, We are measuring for poverty hence poverty index needs to be looked at.
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man Hollywood is doing the job to show indian society and its problems. Slumdog.... Etc.
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Please dont cry..
..we want to become rich like your nation tooAgriculture is not taxed in India too
Indian poverty levels higher than Pakistan's, says UN report
India, the world's second fastest growing economy, has been ranked as poorer than its blighted enemy Pakistan in a United Nations report on global poverty.
The report also finds more 'gender equality' in conservative Pakistan than in 'tolerant' India.
Its findings amount to a wake-up call for a nation which has taken great pride in its rapid economic growth and the increasing clout of its billionaire business leaders but has failed to share the spoils with its poor. Britain's Department for Internmational Development has pointed to this chequered progress to justify its continuing aid to India.
The Human Development Report reveals that while India ranks slightly above Pakistan in its level of 'human development' – based on life expectancy, schooling and per capita income – its wider poverty level is worse than Pakistan's.
In absolute terms, 41.6 per cent of India's 1.1 billion people earned less than 78 pence per day compared with 22.6 per cent of Pakistan's 173 million.
The report quotes its 'multi-dimensional poverty index' which includes measures of schooling, child mortality, nutrition, access to electricity, toilets, drinking water, and hygienic living conditions, and reveals India is poorer.
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It found 53.7 per cent of Indians suffering from this broader kind of poverty, compared with 49 per cent of Pakistanis.
More surprisingly, India is ranked below Pakistan and Bangladesh on gender equality which reflects maternal death rates, teenage pregnancies, access to education, and the number of women parliamentarians and in the workplace.
India's rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said the report highlighted the prevalence of poverty in the midst of economic growth and the possibility that "actually economic development may lead to retrogression of social indices." Priya Subramanian of Save the Children said India's poor ranking reflected a lack of political will to tackle poverty.
"It is things like healthcare and education which have India lagging behind Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. These countries are well on track and India, with its fast growing economy, has still not got its act together," she said.
"While we have a new band of millionaires, on the other side people continue to suffer endlessly. Millions still live below the poverty line and go to sleep hungry. The [economic] growth has not flowed towards them," she added.
Indian poverty levels higher than Pakistan's, says UN report - Telegraph
I am very upset to hear this news. Wonder why Indians fair so poor in this. Maybe they need to stop deluding themselves and stop day dreaming about being Incredible and Shining and superpower for a while I wonder how many Indians had to eat grass for the testing of Agni
India, the world's second fastest growing economy, has been ranked as poorer than its blighted enemy Pakistan in a United Nations report on global poverty.
The report also finds more 'gender equality' in conservative Pakistan than in 'tolerant' India.
Its findings amount to a wake-up call for a nation which has taken great pride in its rapid economic growth and the increasing clout of its billionaire business leaders but has failed to share the spoils with its poor. Britain's Department for Internmational Development has pointed to this chequered progress to justify its continuing aid to India.
The Human Development Report reveals that while India ranks slightly above Pakistan in its level of 'human development' – based on life expectancy, schooling and per capita income – its wider poverty level is worse than Pakistan's.
In absolute terms, 41.6 per cent of India's 1.1 billion people earned less than 78 pence per day compared with 22.6 per cent of Pakistan's 173 million.
The report quotes its 'multi-dimensional poverty index' which includes measures of schooling, child mortality, nutrition, access to electricity, toilets, drinking water, and hygienic living conditions, and reveals India is poorer.
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It found 53.7 per cent of Indians suffering from this broader kind of poverty, compared with 49 per cent of Pakistanis.
More surprisingly, India is ranked below Pakistan and Bangladesh on gender equality which reflects maternal death rates, teenage pregnancies, access to education, and the number of women parliamentarians and in the workplace.
India's rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said the report highlighted the prevalence of poverty in the midst of economic growth and the possibility that "actually economic development may lead to retrogression of social indices." Priya Subramanian of Save the Children said India's poor ranking reflected a lack of political will to tackle poverty.
"It is things like healthcare and education which have India lagging behind Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. These countries are well on track and India, with its fast growing economy, has still not got its act together," she said.
"While we have a new band of millionaires, on the other side people continue to suffer endlessly. Millions still live below the poverty line and go to sleep hungry. The [economic] growth has not flowed towards them," she added.
Indian poverty levels higher than Pakistan's, says UN report - Telegraph
I am very upset to hear this news. Wonder why Indians fair so poor in this. Maybe they need to stop deluding themselves and stop day dreaming about being Incredible and Shining and superpower for a while I wonder how many Indians had to eat grass for the testing of Agni
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i doubt that
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http://www.defence.pk/forums/current-events-social-issues/160078-90-percent-pakistanis-poor.html
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Pakistan vs India: the widening gap
In 1947, Pakistan and India had roughly the same gross domestic product per capita, i.e. the average Pakistani was about as rich (or rather, as poor) as the average Indian. But with the end of British domination and the formation of a new country, this was an era of great ambition.
Alas, things did not work out as planned. Jinnah died a year into independence, a string of successive military defeats by India including one which led to the loss of our Eastern half and deep, corrosive political instability and corruption, plus an inability to even remotely deal with the deep structural problems the British never addressed (such as feudalism), have left Pakistan in a terrible fix. Our country is broken.
For the longest time, however, this hasnt mattered becaus, as it was said to me many years ago, the most important thing is our national security. Its true perhaps after hundreds of years of foreign rule we have an excuse to be a little pathological about our security. But surely we should consider that no one in their right mind would want to annex Pakistan. Countries go to extreme lengths to keep our citizens out, the last thing they would seem to want to do is to invade us. Besides, what are they going to take?
Yet, our elite continues to trot out this argument time and time again, stuck in some sort of time-warp, a time when Pakistan could afford self-importance and lofty concerns about its safekeeping. The stark reality that we have not only hit a brick wall but that we will continue to sink economically, socially, politically, and in practically every sphere of human activity has been held off by the illusion of Pakistans need for protection.
I think I know what will get the attention of our elite. I accept that many people perhaps the vast majority of our leaders are only interested in self-enrichment. In Kenya, whenever a new government comes to power they use the refreshingly honest phrase Now its our turn to eat. But there surely must be some who are thinking of a Pakistan a few years from now, perhaps five, 10, or, even 20 years from now. And what will that Pakistan look like?
With some certainty one can predict that it will be a desperately poor country with a largely illiterate population. Its cities will continue to be overpopulated. A small minority will have access to drinking water and a working toilet. The country will continue to produce little art, possess little advanced technology, publish few books and perhaps will continue to have remotely flown toys police our backyards from the skies. It will have a reasonable sized military though, the largest in the Muslim world perhaps.
This scenario isnt going to be a wake-up call to action. But and heres the kicker although Pakistan will continue to be as poor and as miserable a place as it is now, our neighbour India is becoming a dramatically different place altogether. Last year the average Indian made about $3,500 annually. The average Pakistani, $2,000. Ten years ago the disparity was reversed. Ten years from now the average Indian will be twice as rich as the average Pakistani and this gap is only going to widen in the decades and years to come.
India is racing toward economic and social advancement. Its population is becoming richer, more literate, more tech-savvy. And why is this happening? Because Chinas awesome economic growth scares the living daylights out of India and this ensures that Indians are fixated by their economic growth in turn. Our former rival has put on running shoes and barely has enough time to check its rear view mirror to look at us, so focused is it on the Chinese panda.
Even though the Pakistan of the future will still be what it is now and since our leaders can tolerate the present they will be perfectly willing to tolerate this future what they and any proud, prickly and pathologically paranoid Pakistani might not be able to tolerate is turning up to a party to find out that your former neighbours who were once as poor and wretched as you now seem to have won the lottery. The sad fact is that unless we do something we will soon be alone in our misery and backwardness. Todays India is not so much disinterested by Pakistan as it is embarrassed by its continued association with us.
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http://www.defence.pk/forums/current-events-social-issues/160078-90-percent-pakistanis-poor.html
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http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/159661-india-has-more-rich-people-than-poor-now.html
Pakistan vs India: the widening gap
In 1947, Pakistan and India had roughly the same gross domestic product per capita, i.e. the average Pakistani was about as rich (or rather, as poor) as the average Indian. But with the end of British domination and the formation of a new country, this was an era of great ambition.
Alas, things did not work out as planned. Jinnah died a year into independence, a string of successive military defeats by India including one which led to the loss of our Eastern half and deep, corrosive political instability and corruption, plus an inability to even remotely deal with the deep structural problems the British never addressed (such as feudalism), have left Pakistan in a terrible fix. Our country is broken.
For the longest time, however, this hasnt mattered becaus, as it was said to me many years ago, the most important thing is our national security. Its true perhaps after hundreds of years of foreign rule we have an excuse to be a little pathological about our security. But surely we should consider that no one in their right mind would want to annex Pakistan. Countries go to extreme lengths to keep our citizens out, the last thing they would seem to want to do is to invade us. Besides, what are they going to take?
Yet, our elite continues to trot out this argument time and time again, stuck in some sort of time-warp, a time when Pakistan could afford self-importance and lofty concerns about its safekeeping. The stark reality that we have not only hit a brick wall but that we will continue to sink economically, socially, politically, and in practically every sphere of human activity has been held off by the illusion of Pakistans need for protection.
I think I know what will get the attention of our elite. I accept that many people perhaps the vast majority of our leaders are only interested in self-enrichment. In Kenya, whenever a new government comes to power they use the refreshingly honest phrase Now its our turn to eat. But there surely must be some who are thinking of a Pakistan a few years from now, perhaps five, 10, or, even 20 years from now. And what will that Pakistan look like?
With some certainty one can predict that it will be a desperately poor country with a largely illiterate population. Its cities will continue to be overpopulated. A small minority will have access to drinking water and a working toilet. The country will continue to produce little art, possess little advanced technology, publish few books and perhaps will continue to have remotely flown toys police our backyards from the skies. It will have a reasonable sized military though, the largest in the Muslim world perhaps.
This scenario isnt going to be a wake-up call to action. But and heres the kicker although Pakistan will continue to be as poor and as miserable a place as it is now, our neighbour India is becoming a dramatically different place altogether. Last year the average Indian made about $3,500 annually. The average Pakistani, $2,000. Ten years ago the disparity was reversed. Ten years from now the average Indian will be twice as rich as the average Pakistani and this gap is only going to widen in the decades and years to come.
India is racing toward economic and social advancement. Its population is becoming richer, more literate, more tech-savvy. And why is this happening? Because Chinas awesome economic growth scares the living daylights out of India and this ensures that Indians are fixated by their economic growth in turn. Our former rival has put on running shoes and barely has enough time to check its rear view mirror to look at us, so focused is it on the Chinese panda.
Even though the Pakistan of the future will still be what it is now and since our leaders can tolerate the present they will be perfectly willing to tolerate this future what they and any proud, prickly and pathologically paranoid Pakistani might not be able to tolerate is turning up to a party to find out that your former neighbours who were once as poor and wretched as you now seem to have won the lottery. The sad fact is that unless we do something we will soon be alone in our misery and backwardness. Todays India is not so much disinterested by Pakistan as it is embarrassed by its continued association with us.
My sources are more detailed UN sources and also the most up to date sorry to burst your bubble
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An already closed thread exists
http://www.defence.pk/forums/econom...-higher-than-pakistans-says-un-report-11.html
pakistani trollers are opening threads multiple times on sametopic first omar opened a new thread on that beef festival issue now this
http://www.defence.pk/forums/econom...-higher-than-pakistans-says-un-report-11.html
pakistani trollers are opening threads multiple times on sametopic first omar opened a new thread on that beef festival issue now this
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This guy's in pure denial rofl.
Poverty in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poverty is widespread in India, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. According to a 2005 World Bank estimate, 41.6% of the total Indian population falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day (PPP, in nominal terms INR 21.6 a day in urban areas and INR 14.3 in rural areas).[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Pakistan
At that time, the government estimate was that 23.9 per cent of the population lived below the poverty line but the independent organisations assessed the figure in the range of 25.7 - 28.3 per cent.
Pakistan fares better than India and Bangladesh on most poverty markers such as the UN MPI index and its poverty rate is below those nations.[6]
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