Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
good vision, aggressive, but unless somone is going to pit a stake in the ground, its not going to happen. Best of luck to India in embarking on this ambitious and important mission. The minister and his colleagues have work cutout for them.
It would take tenacity, discipline, cooperation between public and private sector, a sense for justice, human development that will have to all come together to realize his vision.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/08/news...ion=2007020909
47 percent of Indian children under the age of five are either malnourished or stunted.
The adult literacy rate is 61 percent (behind Rwanda and barely ahead of Sudan). Even this is probably overstated, as people are deemed literate who can do little more than sign their name.
Only 10 percent of the entire Indian labor force works in the formal economy; of these fewer than half are in the private sector.
The enrollment of six-to-15-year-olds in school has actually declined in the last year. About 40 million children who are supposed to be in school are not.
About a fifth of the population is chronically hungry; about half of the world’s hungry live in India.
More than a quarter of the India population lives on less than a dollar a day.
India has more people with HIV than any other country.
(Sources: UNDP, Unicef, World Food Program; Edward Luce)