Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels
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#2“One’s desires are endless, however much one gets.”
Truth.
Re: Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels
#3“One’s desires are endless, however much one gets.” Truth.
While I admit to not having been able to read the article, this is very true. In my country, everyone has access to free healthcare, housing, food, and even tertiary education for most people, especially the poorest. But there are still endless complaints about poverty. Sometimes a person will have to live in a (free) hotel because all the immediately available free housing is in another city where they don't want to live despite being still perfectly well developed and comfortable.
We'll never get rid of poverty because people keep raising the bar no matter how wealthy they get.
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#4“One’s desires are endless, however much one gets.” Truth.
While I admit to not having been able to read the article, this is very true. In my country, everyone has access to free healthcare, housing, food, and even tertiary education for most people, especially the poorest. But there are still endless complaints about poverty. Sometimes a person will have to live in a (free) hotel because all the immediately available free housing is in another city where they don't want to…
Free housing & food? Which country is that?
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#5I don't understand the significant of metrics like the international poverty line. Seems like the only point of its existence is to create a sense of progress or maybe exaggerate it. They never account for basic stuff like how many calories people get to eat, let alone the quality of nutrition. Last year I read an article saying like 30% of children in India are stunted.
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#6Aechive copy: https://archive.is/7O00b
Re: Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels
#7“One’s desires are endless, however much one gets.” Truth.
While I admit to not having been able to read the article, this is very true. In my country, everyone has access to free healthcare, housing, food, and even tertiary education for most people, especially the poorest. But there are still endless complaints about poverty. Sometimes a person will have to live in a (free) hotel because all the immediately available free housing is in another city where they don't want to…
Poverty perception is relative. Most people judge their position on the poor/rich scale based on their sorroundings, rather than in absolute value.
Also to the point on raising the bar. I think that is not a bad thing.
Re: Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels
#8“One’s desires are endless, however much one gets.” Truth.
While I admit to not having been able to read the article, this is very true. In my country, everyone has access to free healthcare, housing, food, and even tertiary education for most people, especially the poorest. But there are still endless complaints about poverty. Sometimes a person will have to live in a (free) hotel because all the immediately available free housing is in another city where they don't want to…
All the free claims of facilities here ONLY exists to support corruption. These free things are not materially helping poor people hence everyone seems to be unhappy. For example, in India it takes almost $700k per km of road construct while in the US, it takes only $120k per km to construct the road.
And when it comes to other attributes like quality of the road, speed of the construction or durability of the road.... It's far worst than the USA.
All the Indian govt programs only exists to support their corrupt contractors and not for helping people genuinely.
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#9Even if it is neglible, it is still millions of people. Plus if industrial miracle, so to say, had been allowed to happen, this might have happened much sooner. And this country is yet to deal with the massive impact that potential impacts that AI could have on it econcomy.
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#10Counter balance:
“According to the 2023 Global Hunger Index, India ranks 111th out of 125 countries, with a score of 28.7, indicating a “serious” level of hunger. Although this is a slight improvement from its 2015 score of 29.2, the progress has been slow compared to countries with similar economic growth rates. India also has the highest child wasting rate in the world at 18.7%. And 35.5% of children under five are medically listed as having their growth stunted, a condition that leads to long-term developmental complications.”
— https://outreach-international.org/blog/malnutrition-in-indi...