Re: Can India overtake China is coming years?
My father and father in law have been to India and the poverty they saw was mind numbing. They said they have never seen so many people living in such poverty. As much as 40-50% of India’s population is living under the poverty line. And that doesn’t include the people who are barely above the poverty line. In short, a MAJORITY of Indians are living in poverty! India is making progress with the rich and the upper middle class but the poor are getting poorer and their living conditions are dismal. Also India experiences a great deal of ethnic violence that NEVER gets reported by the Indian media.
Indian media LOVES to ignore their problems and portray this image that they are making waves on the international front. India can never be an important player in the international arena because frankly it doesn’t have a lot of resources. They really don’t have much to offer the world other than their graduates in the IT sector! And even those are being taken over by the Chinese and East Europeans.
India has an estimated 200 million chronically hungry people, suffering from all the disease and malnutrition that comes from hunger yet they are ignored everyday by the politicians and the rich.
And comparing Pakistan to India is like comparing apples to oranges! India has been around for much longer than Pakistan. Plus look at the difference in population. You would think with 1.5 billion people they would make some innovations and advances in science, medicine, sports, finance but nope. NADA! The only advances they make is in the field of Bollywood vulgarity!
I am not sure where you relatives went, what economic strata they associated with, where they stayed etc. so I cannot comment on their observation. To give you an example, if you stay near Dharavi slums you will see one of the poorest living conditions in the world. The problem in India is not lack of resources, its the unequal distribution of resources.
And don’t know where you got the 1.5 billion population figure from. Last I heard, it was 1.1 billion.