Comments on: India, the superpower? http://www.defeatpoverty.com/2007/02/india-superpower.html A conversation on global economic issues, ideas & data to help us all become better contributors to defeating the scourge of extreme global poverty Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mita http://www.defeatpoverty.com/2007/02/india-superpower.html/comment-page-1#comment-80 mita Sun, 13 May 2007 02:10:00 +0000 http://www.defeatpoverty.com/2007/02/india-the-superpower.html#comment-80 The real problem is the colonnial monetary banking system the third world inherited from the first world. <br/>Read Article: Transforming Money: Debt to Empowerment <br/><br/>http://www.seek2know.net/money2.html The real problem is the colonnial monetary banking system the third world inherited from the first world.
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]]> By: KT http://www.defeatpoverty.com/2007/02/india-superpower.html/comment-page-1#comment-77 KT Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:36:00 +0000 http://www.defeatpoverty.com/2007/02/india-the-superpower.html#comment-77 India presents a very interesting example of hunger and poverty NOT being a consequence of lack of resources or economic growth.<br/><br/>For example, Bangladesh, which has a lower income level and much slower economic growth, has overtaken India in reducing child mortality rate (had India matched Bangladesh's rate of reduction in child mortality<br/>over the past decade, 732,000 fewer children would have died in India). <br/><br/><br/>India is indeed the world's largest democracy, with the third largest scientific and technology workforce. It is a net exporter of food, number one producer in sugar, peanuts, tea and fruit; it is number two in rice, wheat, vegetables and milk. And yet 53% of India's children under age 5 are malnourished and underweight, compared with 32% in sub-Saharan Africa. 33% of India's babies are underweight at birth due to malnutrition and ill health of their mothers. This compares with 15% of those born in sub-Saharan Africa. 60% of Indian women of childbearing age are underweight and malnourished. By contrast, the proportion of malnourished women in sub-Saharan Africa is 20%.<br/><br/>India has to transform its deeply entrenched social conditions (such as low status of women, for example) to resolve is human development issues.<br/><br/>Warmest regards<br/>Ekaterina India presents a very interesting example of hunger and poverty NOT being a consequence of lack of resources or economic growth.

For example, Bangladesh, which has a lower income level and much slower economic growth, has overtaken India in reducing child mortality rate (had India matched Bangladesh’s rate of reduction in child mortality
over the past decade, 732,000 fewer children would have died in India).

India is indeed the world’s largest democracy, with the third largest scientific and technology workforce. It is a net exporter of food, number one producer in sugar, peanuts, tea and fruit; it is number two in rice, wheat, vegetables and milk. And yet 53% of India’s children under age 5 are malnourished and underweight, compared with 32% in sub-Saharan Africa. 33% of India’s babies are underweight at birth due to malnutrition and ill health of their mothers. This compares with 15% of those born in sub-Saharan Africa. 60% of Indian women of childbearing age are underweight and malnourished. By contrast, the proportion of malnourished women in sub-Saharan Africa is 20%.

India has to transform its deeply entrenched social conditions (such as low status of women, for example) to resolve is human development issues.

Warmest regards
Ekaterina

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