Re: Booming India expects 9.2% growth.
There are tons of things Pakistan can learn from India, of what to do and also of what not to do. What to do is simple and can nto be disputed, education, free markets, decrease corruption, more innovation etc.
what not to do to learn is how to have the effcts trickle down properly. I was reading an article just today which I wil share.
However, all the issues that India is facing should not take away from the immense amount of development and good work that has been done there, and Pakistan needs to take that playbook and follow suit, while side stepping the errors that were made.
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)