maqsad
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in the last decade India's economy has increased by 2.5 times almost.
*HIV infections per capita? Possibly...
*Abject poverty per capita(less than a $ or two) ? Debatable...
a large grey economy, unorganised labor market and lower PPP, Ration/PDS schemes etc. are all important factors which must be taken into account
*Severe Malnourtishment per capita? Its the first time I have heard this.. please provide some statistics... Calorie requirements vary and so do the BMR of different individuals..
*Murder per capita? Provide stats
*Prostitution per capita? Provide stats
*Guttercleaners per capita? Provide stats
*Homelessness per capita ? Provide stats.. (possible since a House in posh area in Delhi/Mumbai costs 25000$+ per sq yard yes 25000$)
*TB per capita? Some diseases are due to climatic and topographical features..
BTW most of the above factors are not taken into account while defining poverty...
Most of the above factors may not be taken into account while defining poverty but many of them do contribute to causing poverty, yet others are signs of poverty.
Severe and even moderate malnourishment causes muscle atrophy, degenerative disease, mental retardation, deformities and low energy output. Not to mention low IQ,general feeblemindedness and chronic or acute depression. These factors in turn contribute greatly to poverty since it is the poorest people who have to work the hardest to survive and prosper. So the productivity of manual laborers and reduntant clerical workers is greatly reduced.
Murder, prostitution and guttercleaning are acts and occupations with direct correlation to abject and extreme poverty, so you cannot just brush that away.
Homelessness doesn't really exist in Pakistan's cities and most certainly not in its villages and towns. Big Indian cities including Delhi/Mumbai which you were joking about have shantytowns where people live in cardboard boxes with corrugated roofs tied on. Now don't tell me this has no relation to poverty.
PS: I will be the first to say that in your face poverty in India is generally more overt than Pakistan.. and India leads Pakistan in absolute numbers...
It is obvious to anyone that India would lead in absolute numbers but what I am arguing is that it also leads even when adjusted for population.
I differ.. India's gdp per capita is over 1000$.. and there GDP by PPP per capita is over 5000$ ...
Pakistan's GDP per capita even if over 1000$ would then be around 3600$ per capita by PPP
I don't buy these PPP multiplier figures, are they CIA supplied as well? Why would all items, especially essential items, cost a third more in Pakistan? That makes no sense.
that would be China..
Are you trying to be funny here? India does not even begin to compare to china when it comes to equality, fair access to health, life essentials and education. Why do you think China has three times the GDP and faster growth, why do you think the average Chinese has an IQ of 105 while the average Indian is stuck at 82? It's because people in China treat everyone well. The government and society there actually works properly which is why they will be a superpower by 2050.
Caste system exists in all South Asian Nations... While in India it is against the law to discriminate on the basis of caste, religion... etc.
The caste system is about ten times more entrenched in India than in Bangladesh and Pakistan. You have millions of people, perhaps hundreds of millions of people doomed bottom of the barrel "chamar" tasks. And the discrimination laws in India are a joke too, unenforcible except when forcefully reverse discriminating by assigning jobs to low castes. I can't believe you tried to slip that statement in about it being against the law as if that had any meaning.