Re: Why India Became a Democracy and Pakistan Did not
you are right if you measure economic power by the hunger of its citizens:
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=304449&leftnm=4&subLeft=0&chkFlg=
“…The country, which takes pride in its remarkable transformation from ship-to-mouth existence to having been till recently a net food exporter, has been ranked at a lowly No. 96 among 119 developing countries, well below all its neighbouring countries with the solitary exception of Bangladesh. Even much poorer countries like Nepal and Myanmar and an economy like Pakistan have been ranked above India, indicating that the incidence of hunger there is far lower than in India. Equally worrisome is the fact unveiled in the IFPRI’s report, entitled “The World’s Most Deprived”, that the fight against hunger that produced good results between 1992 and 1997, lost steam subsequently and failed to show any further improvement in the nutrition status till 2003, the period covered by this report…”