Human Development Index: Pakistan remains stagnant at 146

[Gibbs]

Do we leave any chance to score brownie points???? Especially in PDF???? How many posters here think we can learn from each other mistake??? Instead we try to score points on each other mistake?? This is one of the reason why we are where we are...... I am sure the western countries must be laughing at us

Exactly.. At the bottom of the pit and and arguing about who has less shit on them

 

[damiendehorn]

Modi should incorporate into his agenda to bring India in first 100 nation in coming 5 years.

I think we need to take a leaf out of Malaysian book, they don't look at things in the short term. Governments only expect to last one term, so they plan for 5 years then the next government comes to power and undoes any good work so they can follow their agenda.

It's time SA nations to have long term vision, what they want to achieve in 20 years or so, like Malaysia's vision 2020 and get all parties to compromise and sign up to reaching it. Unless everyone is following from the same script, we will always be moving one step forward and two steps backward.

 

[karan.1970]

Sad isn't it? We all seem to revel in news of how our badly our neighbour is doing when we are not that much better. Look our neighbour has only managed to be 999th position in the HDI and we are 997th, yea I know all those 996 countries have better living conditions but....yeaaaaa....at least were beter then our neighbour....LOL.

Thankfully this trend is only prevalent on anonymous internet forums like this and not in real life

 

[damiendehorn]

Thankfully this trend is only prevalent on anonymous internet forums like this and not in real life

Let's hope so. You'd be surprised how pig headed and blinkered people can be, no nation can grow and develop if the nations around them are mired in chaos. If you really want your own nation to grow and develop, for the least well off fellow citizens to improve their life overall, then you'd better pray your neighbours are growing as fast as you too.

 

[jarves]

Bangladesh is running like a horse.

 

[nair]

Bangladesh is running like a horse.

and India is flying at the speed of tortoise.......

 

[TopCat]

You'll have excuse me, my mother tongue is either Dutch or English. I don't know what Roti Kapda or Makan is, but I agree with you we have to move faster, much faster just to get to where the rest of the world is. Hope the entire SA region can achieve its goals within my lifetime.

If you want to move too fast you will end up being Thailand, Vietnam. Inclusive growth is far more important than faster growth. Faster growth tends to create evil fat in the economy while most of the poor remains marginalized with no proper education, human rights, health care or jobs. For instance (pardon me indian/pakistanis) when India/Pakistan opened their economy who was the beneficiary? It was only the middle class and the poor had no place in it.

 

[Progressive1]

Standard of living of masses is the only thing that matter petty things like jingoism should take back seat.

 

[damiendehorn]

Bangladesh is running like a horse.

Long way to go, no government has actually stated what our goals are. What's our targets for the next 5,10,20 years...non of the government we have had and I mean non! Have really achieved anything constructive, growth has come from the private sector.

Malaysia was at the same level as us at independence, now look at where they are and look at where we are. Yes we had a lot of obstacles to over come (destroyed economy, neglected and non existent industrial base, natural disasters and stupid social polices), but we need to do better much much better.

Saying all that, yes I have noticed real physical and mental changes in Bangladesh, but it's coming from the private sector and individuals. It's the government, red tape and corruption that is holding us back.

 

[Chronos]

and India is flying at the speed of tortoise.......

Don't worry, Super Modi is here

 

[TopCat]

Long way to go, no government has actually stated what our goals are. What's our targets for the next 5,10,20 years...non of the government we have had and I mean non! Have really achieved anything constructive, growth has come from the private sector.

Malaysia was at the same level as us at independence, now look at where they are and look at where we are. Yes we had a lot of obstacles to over come (destroyed economy, neglected and non existent industrial base, natural disasters and stupid social polices), but we need to do better much much better.

Saying all that, yes I have noticed real physical and mental changes in Bangladesh, but it's coming from the private sector and individuals. It's the government, red tape and corruption that is holding us back.

Wrong data.

 

[nair]

Don't worry, Super Modi is here

Let us wait for another 5 year to see what Modi can do..... He started his innings in 20 20 style, and after the power play now he is playing test..... The real capability will be visible only in 2 to 3 years.

But i seriously hope Modi doing something good for the country, and i dont want to see Congress back in power with its current leadership/policies.

 

[Chronos]

Let us wait for another 5 year to see what Modi can do..... He started his innings in 20 20 style, and after the power play now he is playing test..... The real capability will be visible only in 2 to 3 years.

But i seriously hope Modi doing something good for the country, and i dont want to see Congress back in power with its current leadership/policies.

despite my smart alecky comments, what you said is true.

I think it reflects a dearth in leadership in our part of the world

 

[damiendehorn]

If you want to move too fast you will end up being Thailand, Vietnam. Inclusive growth is far more important than faster growth. Faster growth tends to create evil fat in the economy while most of the poor remains marginalized with no proper education, human rights, health care or jobs. For instance (pardon me indian/pakistanis) when India/Pakistan opened their economy who was the beneficiary? It was only the middle class and the poor had no place in it.

There will always be winners and losers, do we want to see low paid factory workers that sweat to make a few buck to provide food, clothing and eduction for their kids or do we say no to FDI, multi nationals, sweat shop etc and have the general poor masses out of work and begging?

Unfortunately I don't live in an ideal world and in this real world I have to make choices. A lot of people have grown filthy rich on the backs of millions of hard working women in those garment factories, but ask those same women how many of them would prefer to work as house maid, I'm betting you wouldn't have many takers.

It's the job of the private sector to create growth, and it's the job of politicians and civil servant to check the accesses of the powerful, put policies in place to mange the economy and properly redistribute wealth equitably.

 

[Foot12]

despite my smart alecky comments, what you said is true.

I think it reflects a dearth in leadership in our part of the world

Well, there were a lot of great rulers in the past and even during the British Raj there were Indian
rulers who did a lot for the development of their states. The Indian Princely states like Baroda, Mysore and
Travancore were the most developed regions of whole South Asia because of the great leadership
and vision of the Indian rulers.