India 'diverts funds for poor to pay for Commonwealth games'

[bittu]

@janab-e-ali

This is the same problem that I already pointed out with your poverty figures. “Middle class” is a self-defined, ultimately meaningless term. The figures often quoted in India are based off of a newspaper study that suggested that an Indian household could be considered “middle class” if they owned a telephone, a scooter/motorcycle, and a TV, and estimated that under those terms roughly 20% of India’s population was middle class. That is not remotely comparable to European and American definitions of a middle class standard of living, and certainly does not translate to the kind of actual buying power that international companies are interested in.
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so, you want to suggest that bush was misled by an indian newspaper’ study…