India's greatest strength!

[malhot]

Re: India’s greatest strength!

America Visitors, USA Visitors, Information for visitors to the USA, USA...

At least this site - supports the view that India’s greatest strength is its people. I wish the poor in India too, are provided a good education for a chance to improve their life.

(I understand, that urban Pakistani families too stress the need to do well in school, since I have read about after school tuitions, and a lot of people doing O & A levels)

[burqaposhx]

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Here is one of the greatest strengths of India.

Indians are generally humble and law-abiding migrants. They are also well-educated. And that’s why they are able to be successful in USA.

Pakistanis should learn a lesson instead of following Jiahdi slogans.
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India tops migrant workers table **
India tops the table for migrant remittances, which is the amount of money Indians working abroad send home.

                           In 2007, Indian workers sent back $27bn (£13.6bn), according to new figures from the World Bank.                               
                           The other countries in the top five were China with $25.7bn, Mexico's $25bn, the Philippines at $17bn and France with $12.5bn.                               
                           The top country from which money was sent was the US with $42bn in recorded outward flows.                                                    
                                                    **                              'Life-line for the poor'                              **                              
                           It was followed by Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Germany.                               
                           Global remittances from migrants are now three times as large as the flows of official government aid to developing countries.                               

Total global remittances in 2007 were estimated by the World Bank to be $318bn of which $240bn went to people in developing countries.
“In many developing countries, remittances provide a life-line for the poor,” said the World Bank’s senior economist Dilip Ratha.
“They are often an essential source of foreign exchange and a stabilising force for the economy in turbulent times.”

        Story from BBC NEWS:

BBC NEWS | Business | India tops migrant workers table

[Dr.LuLworth]

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As a side note : TOI is not a newspaper which does charity. They need to sustain themselves. Please check the quality of the pop-up blockers that you have installed.

times of india is the biggest national publication of india, and also proclaim to be "World’s Largest Selling English Broadsheet Newspaper". I don't think they need that many advertisements to survive. Despite being "the biggest" they are a greedy tabloid. CNN.com has two ads on the main page. Google has none.

[Monk]

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because most of them happen to be in india, labor is cheap so life is all good for indians.

[simplyme]

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@alig_reinvented

times of india is the biggest national publication of india, and also proclaim to be "World’s Largest Selling English Broadsheet Newspaper". I don't think they need that many advertisements to survive. Despite being "the biggest" they are a greedy tabloid. CNN.com has two ads on the main page. ** Google has none.**

Do you even think before you write. Not many (maybe people like you who go there to check if ads are present) would going to navigate away from Google Home Page. They would just enter a search word and then proceed to the next page. That is where all the ads are present. Google believes in targetted advertising which is really not possible for a newspaper..

[Tariq_Akhtar]

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The guy saying Google doesn't do ads has no clue.

But for ads Google wouldn't even be around.

May be the only page in google he has used is the blank search entry page

[lakkis25]

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@janab-e-ali

That is beyond laughable. If it were even close to true, by the time you had factored in all the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Pakistani, and Middle Eastern physicians, you would be able to count the white doctors in the US on your hands.

According to the 2000 US census, there are 105,300 physicians and surgeons in the US who identify themselves as ethnically Asian (which includes all of the Far East and the Indian Subcontinent). Asians as whole account for 15% of all US doctors.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/001738.html

This outright lie, of course, casts doubt on all the other ‘statistics’ presented in your article.

I would have thought your country had higher journalistic standards that this.

hi the people Greencard are not counted as citizens, only 50% of indians take US citizenship as india does not allow dual

[janab-e-ali]

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hi the people Greencard are not counted as citizens, only 50% of indians take US citizenship as india does not allow dual

The US Census counts non-citizens as well. The figures given in the article are ridiculous.

The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origian has 42,000 members. Lets inflate that figure by 25-50% to factor in all the Indian doctors who don't want to be in the association...thats 52-63,000 physicians, which out of an estimated 850,000 US physicians, puts the Indian share at 6-7%.

For those who are curious, the APPNA has about 15,000 members...which, with the 25-50% inflation, puts the Pakistani share at 2-2.5%.

[ravage]

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janab-e-ali is correct. the figures are completely inflated, for most things. please see

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:WVMz33IzeCcJ:nri.in.msn.com/article.aspx%3Fcp-documentid%3D1289009+38%25+doctors+indians+america&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/indians-are-a-force-in-us-but-beware-of-statistics_10027868.html