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Yeah look, objectively it is not exactly such a heaven that you are projecting. Visit the following to analyse the salary levels in China. Not even close to what you would think a heaven huh? But PPP is fine I am sure. Cosidering the advantages that China gets by its artificially low cost...

Not possible. For capital equipment = clear policy, no CKD / SKD. Everything has to be manufactured except for which it can be proven that it cannot be made in India due to political restriction of the home government / TOT restriction. Also it is not so cheap to make in India compared to...

Actually the case is not that. ZTE also lost an order from a Dubai based telecom operator now licenses in India for networking equipment. They know that they cannot afford to be out of the 2nd largest potential market in the world. Afterall the "unemployed" Indians are 10% of the revenue for...

But Sir, Riaz also has to get some data up on this forum so that we can analyse the facts and try and arrive at some sort of conclusion about the middle class in Pakistan also. So far we have just been discussing one part of the post = Nancy Birdsall's report based on which it is clear that...

OMG, please do not mention the W word sir. We are having enough trouble with Hafiz Saeed as it is. :partay: But jokes apart, Sir, I seek to submit to you that the NCAER data is used by World Bank + Business consultancy organizations such as McKinsey Global + Leading investment...

Why do the anchors at Duniya tv have such anglo urdu accents? I think the other guy = Qureshi also has this what I think is foreigh returned accent. At least Hamid Gul can be heard with his normal way of speaking. The anchor is strange accented.... And Zaid Hamid said that TTP was there...

http://www.ncaer.org/downloads/PPT/TheGreatIndianMarket.pdf This is where I get my information from, which is a credible applied economic research body from which the WB, IMF, leading organization, consultants like McKinsey pick up their data about the future strategies of operating in the...

Sir, as my first girlfriend would have said: you are choo chweet. I do not want to upset you either. So just to check what has been frivolous in my responses let us try to see the "main focus" of your original post again. Sir you drop terms like "As per what SBP Chairman said", " more than...

Very positive signs of the U.K electoral system and democracy. It is a true sign of tolerance when the people of a country allow naturalized citizens or citizens of different ethnic and religious backgrounds specially women, a major space in their politics. Something that we in India are proud of.

Primarily, it looks more like a good cop bad cop scenarion and I am sure that their goal is to make Pakistan go after terrorists in North Waziristan and also LeT. Anything that US does to encourage Pakistan is welcome. Also, I suspect that they were just hedging for any future attacks because...

So finally the truth behind your non-sense about the India part: Time to take off the blinkers In 2006: 18 Million People were earning annual more than 500,000 INR = USD About 11,260 absolute = USD about 40,000 PPP. Additional 49 Million people were earning between annual 200,000 -...

Bro can you please let me have a link on the paper = "Equity in a globalizing world". I have to go thru it to understand what she is saying because NCAER (Shukla) study already states the income slabs in 2008 per which what Birdsall says is confusing on the least. Thanks for the help in advance.

My frined when elaborating, it is best to remove per capita and look at households becuase "middle class" is a household phenomenon. So your household income remains at about USD 53 per day as explained earlier But you are correct and that too with common sense and even without any data that...

Sir good that you dropped Mr. Pritchett's comments (spice in the original post?) from the discussion. But I am sure that you have no idea about what he has said about the efficacy of Aid and the "Goat Economy" otherwise you have found it relevant also to Pakistan. We can discuss that if you...

Sir, I completely agree with your assessment. Dubai offers a much better quality of life to people from the Sub-continent. More so for Muslims due to the overt religious inclinations. Though there is some discrimation by some of the local population but that is more in Sharjah or Ajmaan. I...

^^^^^^^ Nadeem must have been quite upset when he wrote this.:rofl::rofl:

Actually my friend, given the numbers above, your household income is USD 52 per day. But going per the PPP it will be higher (USD 52 may be can get 10 Kilos of flour in the U.S but in India you can get may be more than 25 - I am not sure of the prices of flour, I never shop but just to explain...

Reducing fertility rates internationally clubbed with the huge pre-natal and post natal costs in western countries teamed with high impetus on health has led to the growth of surrogate parenthood. What is wrong if this is the case. The way I see it, considering that the bottom has fallen out...

Sir, I am dazed by the way you have quoted statistics here. Especially the section that I have highlighted. Let me try to summarize to get a grip on the situation. You say that in 2007 as per estimates between 30 to 35 Million individuals in Pakistan earned above USD 10,000. Going by this...

I see amongst others, two possibilities in these comments / approach from the Foreign Minister: 1. Comments for internal consumption to make sure that GoI is not seen to be know-towing to the U.S. 2. Testing the waters with a hardened stance with U.S on this incident expecting to encash a...