'More poor' in India than Africa

[Ambassador1]

That exactly is the point I was making a while back here.

india has left all their poor population to survive upon foreign aid programmes to india while they spend their own monetary resources for buying all kinds of military & defence / spy systems to cause terror on their neighbour’s soil & around the world instead of spending the same on providing roof for those living under the sun & in the slump. They constantly non-stop advertise their population’s poverty through their own & international media & organization so that all the foreign aid programmes can be used on them instead of spending any portion of their own financial resources on the largely muslim poor population.

@achterbahn

Times of India reports that India is spending 50,000 Crore Rupees on buying few submarines and at the same time there you find this news item:

55% of India’s population poor: Report

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NEW DELHI: India’s abysmal track record at ensuring basic levels of nutrition is the greatest contributor to its poverty as measured by the new international Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI). About 645 million people or 55% of India’s population is poor as measured by this composite indicator made up of ten markers of education, health and standard of living achievement levels.

Developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) forthcoming 2010 Human Development Report, the MPI attempts to capture more than just income poverty at the household level. It is composed of ten indicators: years of schooling and child enrollment (education); child mortality and nutrition (health); and electricity, flooring, drinking water, sanitation, cooking fuel and assets (standard of living). Each education and health indicator has a 1/6 weight, each standard of living indicator a 1/18 weight.

The new data also shows that even in states generally perceived as prosperous such as Haryana, Gujarat and Karnataka, more than 40% of the population is poor by the new composite measure, while Kerala is the only state in which the poor constitute less than 20%. The MPI measures both the incidence of poverty and its intensity. A person is defined as poor if he or she is deprived on at least 3 of the 10 indicators. By this definition, 55% of India was poor, close to double India’s much-criticised official poverty figure of 29%. Almost 20% of Indians are deprived on 6 of the 10 indicators.

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