I won't be discussing India here, but your poverty % in 2000 was 27.4%, and in 2010 after all the development has risen up to 37.2% in 2010. 100 million more people went below the poverty line from 2000 to 2010. Before your economic boom, your poverty rate was only going down. Now tell me, what is the use of all this kind of development when conditions for the common man are only getting worse?
Poverty in India
Poverty in Pakistan
Pakistan's poverty in 2008: 17.2%
India's poverty in 2000: 26.1% (from the graph)
India's poverty in 2004: 27.5% (from the link)
India's poverty in 2010 (after the economic boom): 37.2% (from the link)
Pakistan's poverty has gone down, India's poverty has gone up. India's poverty rate is twice of that of Pakistan.
100 million more Indians now living in poverty - The Economic Times
Mr. haider you have posting these stats for quite some time now on this forum but it has been pointed out repeatedly that in india the poverty rate had gone up fro 27 % to 37 % only because the poverty threshold was increased recently to include health and education spending which was not done earlier .
I wonder what indices pakistan uses to define poverty , but the fact remians that in Human development index India is doing better thatn Pakistan but your biased mind has been ignoring all these facts .
In india poverty increased not because more people became poor but because India changed its definition of poverty and raised it to a higher level .
That article in economic times is an example of irresponsible journalism because it ignored that fact and didn't mention it just to sensationalise stuff and grab eyeballs of readers .
http://www.wfs.org
/confprcetron.htm
http://www.defence.pk/forums/economy-development/10843-reducing-poverty-india-well-ahead-pakistan-world-bank-imf-report.html
Read those articles with an unbiased mind then talk .
On the whole poverty has reduced in India drastically . The same is continuing to happen as we speak , no country has seen poverty increase with good economic growth.
The world will listen to the likes of goldman sachs and PWC and other major economists for ascertaining India's future rather than some Mr. bilal haider .
Even after all this i am sure you will go around telling people poverty has increased in India i know because you are biased and this is not the first time this fact has been made clear to you on this forum with proofs by other posters as well .
I gues this was still the 10th time you posted those stats on this forum .
Nobody can take you out of your delusions but atleast stay true to your god and dont lie when you say you are unbiased . That is the least you can do.
If you want you celebrate your country's achievement in reducing poverty you can do that without trying to to ridicule India's achievements , that is the problems with many of you guys .
Btw , what is this i am hearing ?
Statistics reveal stunning increase in poverty
This article says this about Pakistani poverty ,
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The poverty increase situation thus stood as follows: 22.3 percent of the population in 2005-06 to between 30-35 percent in 2008-09; now this population is beyond 40 percent."
This article is from a reputed Pakistani publication .
