Pakistan is Rising Star Among Top 20 Frontier Markets

[RiazHaq]

Go and chenck HDI of Kerala .Then talk BS like this.

Kerala is still a poor money order economy dependent on foreign remittances.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

But India's economy increased in terms on Rupees the local currency. So when Rupee bounces back to 45-50 range from current 58-60 wouldn't it offset the current decline in dollar terms?

O'Neill was right when he said India economy exploding. It did. In fact it shrink in the last 2 years in US$ terms.

Haq's Musings: Indian Economy Declines to $1.7 Trillion in 2013-14

Contracted? Really? So that's how you make yourself and your blind followers feel good? #Pathetic India's GDP figures as per International Monetary Fund -

Source:- Report for Selected Countries and Subjects

 

[SAMEET]

saying that 60% indian are poor having mockery of it little less they realise the wonder country they live in have 50% above live in poverty in the same country !

 

[gslv mk3]

Kerala is still a poor money order economy dependent on foreign remittances.

look who is talking...try to match Kerala before spewing BS

 

[SAMEET]

Sir honestly I saw this BS a lot of time in this PDF itself.
In our state and TN I dont know about other states people will get food items for 1rs/.You dont how it works in India.We have a 125 crore people.



Rupee already stabilizes around 60 and now again climbing.They will appreciate slowly till it get a 40 to 45 range.

tamil nadu i wouldnt say most develped state but people are hard working , lot of job oppurtunity but i wish the power problem is slved soon ! jai hind !

look who is talking...try to match Kerala before spewing BS

the narrow brain doesnt realise it takes lot of hard work to earn that ! politics and state should be handled properly in the state but in the end Kochi is way more better then karachi !

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Yes we are jelous of 60% of Indians without toilet.

Yes great Indian culture of not having toilets at home. Otherwise Indians can easly afford to live in proper homes with toilet instead of slums.

Don't be jealous! Your 50% population without toilets is increasing year after year and will soon overtake India in this concern! Bloody failed state!

Less than half of Pakistanis have access to sanitation, says WB
http://tribune.com.pk/story/690737/...pakistanis-have-access-to-sanitation-says-wb/

 

[SAMEET]

A much brighter future .I appreciate that.
But comparing Saudi and Pakistan is seems to be joke.Saudi Arabia a developed nation,top oil producer in the World.
Well I dont know why these Saudi give so much aid to the largest Pakistan economy.Why dont you reject that aid like we rejected UK aid and call it as a peanut.?

which would do to NGOs not to government !

 

[RiazHaq]

Contracted? Really? So that's how you make yourself and your blind followers feel good? #Pathetic India's GDP figures as per International Monetary Fund -

Source:- Report for Selected Countries and Subjects

Read the warning on top right: "Shaded cells indicate IMF staff estimates" not actuals.

Don't be jealous! Your 50% population without toilets is increasing year after year and will soon overtake India in this concern! Bloody failed state!

Less than half of Pakistanis have access to sanitation, says WB
http://tribune.com.pk/story/690737/...pakistanis-have-access-to-sanitation-says-wb/

Haq's Musings: India Leads the World in Open Defecation

India's rivers have been turned into open sewers by 638 million Indians without access to toilets, according to rural development minister Jairam Ramesh. He was reacting aUNICEF report that says Indians make up 58% of the world population which still practices open defection, and the sense of public hygiene in India is the worst in South Asia and the world.



India(638m) is followed by Indonesia (58m), China (50m), Ethiopia (49m), Pakistan (48m), Nigeria (33m) and Sudan (17m). In terms of percentage of each country's population resorting to theunhygienic practice, Ethiopia tops the list with 60%, followed by India 54%, Nepal 50%, Pakistan 28%, Indonesia 26%, and China 4%.


18 percent of urban India still defecates in open while the percentage of rural India is as high as 69 percent of the population. It is the key reason why India carries among the highest infectious disease burdens in the world.

The number of open defecators in rural India alone is more than twice those in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report by DFID, the UK's Department for International Development.

The World Bank has estimated that open defecation costs India $54 billion per year or $48 per head. This is more than the Government of India’s entire budget for health.

The UNICEF report says that with only four more years to go until 2015, a major leap in efforts and investments in sanitation is needed to reach the targets of Millennium Development Goals.

After the embarrassing headlines, it appears that Minister Ramesh is ready to step up the efforts to improve sanitation. He is quoted by Times of India as saying that "we are going to focus now on `nirmal gram abhiyan' -- today 25,000 nirmal grams are a tiny fraction of 6 lakh villages. These nirmal grams are in Maharashtra and Haryana. Maharashtra is a success of social movements while Haryana an example of determined state government action."

Haq's Musings: India Leads the World in Open Defecation

 

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@RiazHaq

What effect the latest TTP attack could have on Pakistani economy?

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Read the warning on top right: "Shaded cells indicate IMF staff estimates" not actuals.

Your entire article is also based on the "Advance estimates by Indian Central Statistical Office (CSO)" - At one point you are writing an article wholly based on the advanced estimates by CSO and at the other point you are complaining that my stats are not credible just because they are IMF staff estimates! Why such hypocrisy? You should have thought about it before writing that article that how would you defend the same when it is all based on "advanced estimates" - why didn't you wait for the actual estimates to come in? #Sheer_Hypocrisy!

Haq's Musings: India Leads the World in Open Defecation

India's rivers have been turned into open sewers by 638 million Indians without access to toilets, according to rural development minister Jairam Ramesh. He was reacting aUNICEF report that says Indians make up 58% of the world population which still practices open defection, and the sense of public hygiene in India is the worst in South Asia and the world.



India(638m) is followed by Indonesia (58m), China (50m), Ethiopia (49m), Pakistan (48m), Nigeria (33m) and Sudan (17m). In terms of percentage of each country's population resorting to theunhygienic practice, Ethiopia tops the list with 60%, followed by India 54%, Nepal 50%, Pakistan 28%, Indonesia 26%, and China 4%.


18 percent of urban India still defecates in open while the percentage of rural India is as high as 69 percent of the population. It is the key reason why India carries among the highest infectious disease burdens in the world.

The number of open defecators in rural India alone is more than twice those in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, according to areport by DFID, the UK's Department for International Development.

The World Bank has estimated that open defecation costs India $54 billion per year or $48 per head. This is more than the Government of India’s entire budget for health.

The UNICEF report says that with only four more years to go until 2015, a major leap in efforts and investments in sanitation is needed to reach the targets of Millennium Development Goals.

After the embarrassing headlines, it appears that Minister Ramesh is ready to step up the efforts to improve sanitation. He is quoted by Times of India as saying that "we are going to focus now on `nirmal gram abhiyan' -- today 25,000 nirmal grams are a tiny fraction of 6 lakh villages. These nirmal grams are in Maharashtra and Haryana. Maharashtra is a success of social movements while Haryana an example of determined state government action."

Haq's Musings: India Leads the World in Open Defecation

Less than half of Pakistanis have access to sanitation, says WB
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ISLAMABAD: A latest World Bank report shows that less than half of Pakistanis have access to sanitation and only two-thirds to electricity. In such a scenario, the global lender has suggested Islamabad invest Rs2.5 trillion every year to close infrastructure gaps, which is necessary to alleviate poverty.

The report – Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia’s Infrastructure Gap – is the first analysis of the region’s infrastructure needs by the World Bank. It has found huge infrastructure gaps in six critical socioeconomic areas that in Pakistan’s case require financing higher than the country’s total tax revenues.

The drawbacks of ignoring investments in transport, electricity, water supply and sanitation, solid waste, telecom and irrigation are that the country’s economic growth will be slow, poverty will inch up and the development goals will never be achieved, according to the report.

In terms of percentage, every year Islamabad will have to invest at least 6.6% and at most 9.5% of its total national output in meeting deficiencies in these critical areas. For the current year, the estimated size of Pakistan’s economy is Rs26 trillion – one-tenth of this amount is around Rs2.5 trillion per year.

Contrary to these gigantic financing requirements, the total federal Public Sector Development Programme for the current fiscal is Rs420 billion, which is just 1.6% of the GDP. While the tax collection target for this fiscal is Rs2.475 trillion and the expected receipts will be Rs2.3 trillion.

The situation in Pakistan was quite interesting due to fiscal constraints, said Luis Andres, the co-author of the report while speaking from Washington through video link.

“To close the huge financing requirements, the dollars could come from government investments, increased efficiencies and private sector investment,” according to the authors. Andres said successful implementation of reforms in Pakistan could fetch foreign direct investment to fill the financing gaps.

Requirements and gaps

Due to years of negligence and lack of investment only 67% of the country’s population has access to electricity, according to the report. To increase access and keep pace with the growth rate, the country needs to invest from 3.7% of national output, or Rs951 billion, to 5.5%, or Rs1.4 trillion, per annum on electricity, the report states.

Similarly, only 47% of the population has access to sanitation services. It will require up to Rs208 billion per annum investment for reversing the trend. In the transport sector, less than three-fourths of the population has access to asphalted roads. The financing requirements of the sector are in the range of Rs250 billon to Rs320 billion per annum.

The irrigation sector needs up to Rs215 billion per annum and the solid waste treatment requires Rs100 billion per annum.

Once growing urbanisation has also significantly slowed down in Pakistan and now about 35% of the population lives in cities, said Dan Biller, the co-author of the report. He added that huge infrastructure gaps and low purchasing power were the main reasons behind slow urbanisation.

The reports suggests that the South Asian region could close huge infrastructure gaps but required $2.5 trillion investment, which could be tapped from both private and public sectors as well as by introducing reforms. In South Asia, 71% of the population has access to electricity, ahead of sub-Saharan African but far behind the rest of the developing world.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 3rd, 2014.

Source:- http://tribune.com.pk/story/690737/...pakistanis-have-access-to-sanitation-says-wb/
Reducing poverty by closing South Asia's infrastructure gap (English) | The World Bank


And as far as India is concerned - Let me quote the very same report on which you are busy ranting -

Regions and countries
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than 40% of the global population without access to improved drinking water.

Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track for meeting the drinking water target, but some countries have already met the target: Malawi, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Namibia, and Gambia. Liberia is on track to meet the target.

593 million in China and 251 million in India gained access to improved sanitation since 1990.

China and India account for just under half the global progress on sanitation.

India

• with 626 million people who practice open defecation, has more than twice the number of the next 18 countries combined;
• accounts for 90 per cent of the 692 million people in South Asia who practice open defecation;
• accounts for 59 per cent of the 1.1 billion people in the world who practice open defecation;
• has 97 million people without access to improved sources of drinking water, second only to China.

China

• accounts for more than 95% of the progress on sanitation in Eastern Asia;
• has 119 million people without improved drinking water, followed by India (97 million); Nigeria (66 million) and Ethiopia (46 million);
• has 14 million people who practice open defecation, 8th on the list of the top 10 countries.

Countries that account for almost three-quarters of the people who practice open defecation:

• India (626 million)
• Indonesia (63 million)
• Pakistan (40 million)
• Ethiopia (38 million)
• Nigeria (34 million)
• Sudan (19 million)
• Nepal (15 million)
• China (14 million)
• Niger (12 million)
• Burkina Faso (9.7 million)
• Mozambique (9.5 million)
• Cambodia (8.6 million).

Total Population of Pakistan in 2012 - 179.2 million
Number of people in India who gained access to personal toilets and improved sanitation from 1990 to 2012 - 251 million

India has uplifted more people gaining access to improved sanitation than the entire population of Pakistan itself from 1990 to 2012!

Source:- WHO | Fast facts

 

[SrNair]

Kerala is still a poor money order economy dependent on foreign remittances.

Kerala is developed.Unlike earlier gen now we are sending skilled people.
Comparin Pakistan and Kerala is a good matter for laughing.Others will mock you.Our people dont encourage
Large industrial investment in kerala

 

[cloud_9]

India has 200,000 MW capacity for its 1.2 billion people.

:cough: 245,393 MW :cough: as on April 14 to be precise.

 

[RiazHaq]

Haq's Musings: India Leads the World in Open Defecation

Countries that account for almost three-quarters of the people who practice open defecation:

• India (626 million)
• Indonesia (63 million)
• Pakistan (40 million)
• Ethiopia (38 million)
• Nigeria (34 million)
• Sudan (19 million)
• Nepal (15 million)
• China (14 million)
• Niger (12 million)
• Burkina Faso (9.7 million)
• Mozambique (9.5 million)
• Cambodia (8.6 million).

India

• with 626 million people who practice open defecation, has more than twice the number of the next 18 countries combined;
• accounts for 90 per cent of the 692 million people in South Asia who practice open defecation;
• accounts for 59 per cent of the 1.1 billion people in the world who practice open defecation;
• has 97 million people without access to improved sources of drinking water, second only to China.

WHO | Fast facts

Kerala is developed.Unlike earlier gen now we are sending skilled people.
Comparin Pakistan and Kerala is a good matter for laughing.Others will mock you.Our people dont encourage
Large industrial investment in kerala

Kerala is just another poor Indian state. It has a lot more poverty than Indian Punjab and Pakistan, according to World Bank.

Haq's Musings: World Bank on Poverty Across India in 2011

Haq's Musings: World Bank on Poverty Across India in 2011

 

[SrNair]

Haq's Musings: India Leads the World in Open Defecation

Countries that account for almost three-quarters of the people who practice open defecation:

• India (626 million)
• Indonesia (63 million)
• Pakistan (40 million)
• Ethiopia (38 million)
• Nigeria (34 million)
• Sudan (19 million)
• Nepal (15 million)
• China (14 million)
• Niger (12 million)
• Burkina Faso (9.7 million)
• Mozambique (9.5 million)
• Cambodia (8.6 million).

WHO | Fast facts



Kerala is just another poor Indian state. It has a lot more poverty than Indian Punjab and Pakistan, according to World Bank.

Haq's Musings: World Bank on Poverty Across India in 2011

Haq's Musings: World Bank on Poverty Across India in 2011

According to world bank.
Did you actually see Kerala in your life?
It is indeed Kerala is poor state or government of Kerala is poor.
Not Keralites ,they are rich and middle class.
Kerala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read this.
Kerala is a light year ahead than Pakistan.We are a developed state in a developing country.

 

[RiazHaq]

According to world bank.
Did you actually see Kerala in your life?
It is indeed Kerala is poor state or government of Kerala is poor.
Not Keralites ,they are rich and middle class.
Kerala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read this.
Kerala is a light year ahead than Pakistan.We are a developed state in a developing country.

A frog which has never been out of the pond thinks its pond is the greatest place on earth.

As to seeing Kerala, I have no desire to see it. I haven't seen Timbuktu either but people at the World Bank and other UN agencies have. And they publish reports and data which are far more reliable than either you or people of Timbuktu.