Poverty in Pakistan Report

[53fd]

Lol. That's because Indian govt has changed its criteria to define "Below Poverty Line" when it moved from Nineth Five year plan to Tenth.

That is, it now includes your spending on Health and Eductaion. Meaning 'minimum' nutrition that you get is also a factor now. Being 'rich' deosnt mean ur not under BPL.

How poverty is calculated in India - Rediff.com Business



or go through this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_Poverty_Line_(India)

So, these 100 million peope didnt come under BPL because of economic boom. infact, economic boom helped 457 million people to come out of poverty, which is second highest in world after China.

Actually, I'm very certain India uses a lower poverty line scale as compared to the World Bank & the IMF. The World Bank chooses $1.25 a day as the poverty line, I read somewhere that India uses 500 rupees a month when it does its own statistics.

infact, economic boom helped 457 million people to come out of poverty,

Care to explain how the economic boom has helped 457 million people come out of poverty? Any evidence for your claims? Does this mean that India has 0% poverty now, because clearly, your economic boom helped "457 million people come out of poverty" (sarcasm).

 

[53fd]

Ya its a big difference but now things are changes

Indian progress rate almost 10% per year

Pakistan progress rate 2-3% per year

So within 5 years we will make our PPP almost double ..... so dnt wary about us ... we are more than happy

It doesn't really matter what the overall progress rates in the country are. Because clearly, it doesn't show the effect in your country overall.

In times of Pakistan's growth (Musharraf era), look at how much poverty was decreased. Poverty in 1999 was 34.5% in Pakistan, & in 2008 was reduced to 17.2%. Now compare India's economic boom from 2004 to 2010, 100 million people went below the poverty line; & the poverty rate has increased from 27.5% to 37.2%. If this is what is meant by development, I think Indians should think of doing the opposite.

If you want to make high rises, shopping malls, metros in Delhi or Ahmedabad at the sake of the whole country & the common man & other regions of the country; you aren't doing a service to India, you are doing a huge disservice. No offense, these are my sincere comments to you. Don't ignore them just because they are coming from a Pakistani. I wish India all the best for its challenge of poverty reduction which is clearly getting worse day by day.

 

[Rang De]

Actually, I'm very certain India uses a lower poverty line scale as compared to the World Bank & the IMF. The World Bank chooses $1.25 a day as the poverty line, I read somewhere that India uses 500 rupees a month when it does its own statistics.

Every country uses its own criteria to define poverty. since different countries have different cost and standard of living, world bank and IMF poverty line doesnt give you right picture. I'm sure Pakistan also does same.

I dont know how Pakistan defines poverty, neither does it interest me nor do i care for people living in poverty in Pakistan. As far as India goes, govt has changed its BPL defination and included some new factors.

2008 news report
India alters its definition of poverty

Indian government has decided to include access to education and health facilities as also availability of clean drinking water while determining the levels of deprivation in the country. This new definition will be applied in the next survey. Officials fear that this may throw up disturbing numbers.

in 2010
100 million more Indians now living in poverty - The Economic Times

India now has 410 million people living below the U.N. estimated poverty line of $1.25 a day, 100 million more than was estimated earlier, officials said.

Care to explain how the economic boom has helped 457 million people come out of poverty? Any evidence for your claims? Does this mean that India has 0% poverty now, because clearly, your economic boom helped "457 million people come out of poverty" (sarcasm).

Lol. Google doesn't work there or what? That figure could be wrong but this is true that India is only second after China in lifting its people out of poverty.

According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005, down from 51.3% in 1977–1978, and 36% in 1993-1994

http://planningcommission.gov.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/10th/volume2/v2_ch3_2.pdf

Poverty in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


That is, its half of what it used to be. In latest survey criteria was changed, keep that in mind google previous critria used, google population growth, and then do the math and tell me how many came out of poverty since 80s or after liberalisation. afaik it should be more than 400 million. i dont have time.

anyway reports say India is lifting 40 million people out of poverty every year. Also,if ur this free, read this imf report about how India and China have reduced poverty levels and are going to play a role in world economy

Transcript of an IMF Book Forum: China and India: Expanding Roles in the World Economy

 

[Rang De]

It doesn't really matter what the overall progress rates in the country are. Because clearly, it doesn't show the effect in your country overall.

In times of Pakistan's growth (Musharraf era), look at how much poverty was decreased. Poverty in 1999 was 34.5% in Pakistan, & in 2008 was reduced to 17.2%. Now compare India's economic boom from 2004 to 2010, 100 million people went below the poverty line; & the poverty rate has increased from 27.5% to 37.2%. If this is what is meant by development, I think Indians should think of doing the opposite.

That's Incorrect assertion. there's a famous quote: “Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”

 

[kingkobra]

If you want to make high rises, shopping malls, metros in Delhi or Ahmedabad at the sake of the whole country & the common man & other regions of the country; you aren't doing a service to India, you are doing a huge disservice. No offense, these are my sincere comments to you. Don't ignore them just because they are coming from a Pakistani. I wish India all the best for its challenge of poverty reduction which is clearly getting worse day by day.

who do you think work in mall?
the poor people only work in this mall as watchmen,as cleaners and many small works that i even cant think about as i am not from commerce background.

you know big-bazar a huge chain in india manufactures many of their products themselves...who works in those factories..obviously those who did not have jobs earlier.

to grow economy and to give job to poor it is necessary that rich people spend their money...and malls are best place to spend

 

[Rafi]

india has actually gotten more hungry which suggests poverty is increasing.

India drops two places in hunger index

INDIA has dropped two places to rank 67th amongst 84 developing nations in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2010, with alarmingly high levels of hunger, undernourished and stunted children and poorly fed women.

It is home to 42 per cent of the world’s underweight children under the age of five, based on data from 2003-2008 in the report released by the Food Policy Institute in Washington on Monday.

India drops two places in hunger index - The Irish Times - Wed, Oct 13, 2010