mo293
March 1, 2011, 1:23am
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Re: Can India overtake China is coming years?
Aww look at you utilizing your googling powers. There you go again totally missing the point. This article talks about a fraction of the country!!! Why would you ignore the majority of the country??? The majority that is hungry, living in slums with no clean water, with no education, with no money and with a constant stress about how to get its next meal!! It’s like me saying Pakistan is making great progress by hanging out in Defense Karachi totally oblivious of the reality!!
Oh I can copy paste too!!! Here is the first comment to this article!!! hahaha
450 million poor in India (more than in entire Africa combined) also mean 450 million who do not have any economic space to play. 250 million defecating on train tracks also mean 250 million whose ill-health will never allow contributing to the national economic growth. 57 million children in India malnourished - one third of all underweight children in the world - means that when they grow up they will be operating on the economic fringes. The young demography will soon turn into a old demography and the task to provide welfare services to them will be gigantic, and quite simply unmanageable for any country in the world, let alone India.
Deeply entrenched caste and ethnic divisions, Maoists waging war in more than a third of the country, all neighbouring countries irritated and annoyed with India and opening up to China, the wealth of few cities never trickling down to the poor let alone lifting the poor out of poverty at one big go, endemic corruption and institutional inability to undertake massive projects (CWG anyone?).
And the western world thinks India will outpace China’s growth?
Bud, I think you summed it up pretty well, Just one correction though..its not 250 million that defecate out in the open but almost 800 million.. Another angle by UN to descredit India. BTW here is teh link to that report straight from lying UN..
http://www.un.org/works/OLD/sustainable/drpatak_waterstory.html
P.S: I smell something indian indian buring in this thread
