Dear Netters:
This article is from The Telegraph today by Dean Nelson, New Delhi (I
got it through New York Times' Twitters)
-bhuban
By Dean Nelson, New Delhi
3:14PM GMT 03 Nov 2011
8 Comments
The report also finds more 'gender equality' in conservative Pakistan
than in 'tolerant' India.
Its findings amount to a wake-up call for a nation which has taken
great pride in its rapid economic growth and the increasing clout of
its billionaire business leaders but has failed to share the spoils
with its poor. Britain's Department for Internmational Development has
pointed to this chequered progress to justify its continuing aid to
India.
The Human Development Report reveals that while India ranks slightly
above Pakistan in its level of 'human development' – based on life
expectancy, schooling and per capita income – its wider poverty level
is worse than Pakistan's.
In absolute terms, 41.6 per cent of India's 1.1 billion people earned
less than 78 pence per day compared with 22.6 per cent of Pakistan's
173 million
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