Skeptic
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Seems like you will not quit ranting unless I stoop downto your level and bring out several other rankings which will show Pakistan in poor light. I have no interest in a mud slinging contest, coz to beat you in that I'll need to dirty myself. I would rather not do that.Anyway you look at it, over $30 billion is too much money to buy expensive toys for Indian military when one out every two Indian children is malnourished, one of our of every three illiterate adults in the wold is an Indian, two-thirds of Indians defecate in the open, and India ranks near the bottom on achieving the MDG goals. It's serious issue with priorities. It's callous to condemn Indian's children to permanent brain damage from lack of food.
The country is an “economic powerhouse but a nutritional weakling”, said the report by the British-based Institute of Development Studies (IDS), which incorporated papers by more than 20 India analysts. It said that despite India’s recent economic boom, at least 46 per cent of children up to the age of 3 still suffer from malnutrition, making the country home to a third of the world’s malnourished children. The UN defines malnutrition as a state in which an individual can no longer maintain natural bodily capacities such as growth, pregnancy, lactation, learning abilities, physical work and resisting and recovering from disease.
In 2001, India committed to the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving its number of hungry by 2015. China has already met its target. India, though, will not meet its goal until 2043, based on its current rate of progress, the IDS report concluded.
Pakistan at 45 ranks well ahead of India at 62, and Pakistan is included in the medium performing countries. PHI is a new composite indicator – the Poverty and Hunger Index (PHI) – developed to measure countries’ performance towards achieving MDG1 on halving poverty and hunger by 2015. The PHI combines all five official MDG1 indicators, including a) the proportion of population living on less than US$ 1/day, b) poverty gap ratio, c) share of the poorest quintile in national income or consumption, d) prevalence of underweight in children under five years of age, and d) the proportion of population undernourished.
“It’s the contrast between India’s fantastic economic growth and its persistent malnutrition which is so shocking,” Lawrence Haddad, director of the IDS, told The Times. He said that an average of 6,000 children died every day in India; 2,000-3,000 of them from malnutrition.
Haq's Musings: Is India a Nutritional Weakling?
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Check the HDI rankings - we are both pathetic.
You have still diverted from the point being made - when there is a defenite threat - from terrorism, external nations and internal issues, any country will focus on sorting those along with poverty alleviation. Why do you have to look at 30 Billion dollars, why not 1.1 billion people. What does it cost us - less than 29 dollar per head per year - A good investment I'd say. Calculate Pakistani (45 dollars) and Chinese figures (54 dollars as per official declaration) accordingly and then return here once you have something concrete.