Irfan Baloch
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Not to Troll..
But looks like our chinese friends tend to boast a little more than required forgetting the poverty in China.
Poverty in China is often overshadowed by average annual GDP growth rates of 9%. According to World Bank and UN statistics, around 200 million Chinese live on less than US$1.25/day; Bangladesh has a total population of 162 million. Furthermore, 482 million people live on less than US$2/day; greater than the populations of the US, Germany and UK put together. Although many are quick to point to the number of people lifted from poverty in China over the past few decades, poverty reduction is slowing down and a gap is opening up.
Furthermore..
The average income of one of the 750 million who lives in rural China is less than 1/3 of that of a person living in an urban area. Then there are the 35 million, who have an average annual income of US$176. That is equivalent to the population of Canada living on about $0.48 a day. 66% of these extremely poor live in the Western Region and only 5% in the Eastern Region. This rural-urban divide can be found not only in wealth distribution and income, but also across human development indicators in education, health, and gender.
good post my friend.. and you are not trolling at all
that’s a better way to put it. thanks for not falling into personal attack fest like the people above
. as I have mentioned before. the defence spending are hard to defend it when there are people on the streets and below poverty line.
Forget China or India even Western Europe and USA is not immune to such disparity.
It all boils down to what the state perceives as priority. So India is not doing anything unique here. All countries do that. Some do it more some less. India stands out because of its scale of spend.