Indien

[ThomasWach]

Tja, das mit Aufholen hat aber auch Schattenseiten. Dazu folgender Artikel:

When globalization leaves people behind
Kevin Watkins International Herald Tribune

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Going by economic measures, India is a globalization success story. Average incomes, rising at 3 percent to 4 percent a year, have doubled since the mid-1980s. Dynamic new industries have emerged, most visibly in the high-technology hubs of Bangalore and Hyderabad. Foreign investment, while still dwarfed by flows to China, has grown from $1 billion a year in the mid-1990s to $5 billion this year.

When we try to measure whether people's lives have improved, however, the figures tell a different story. Poverty has fallen far more slowly than one would expect, given India's economic success. One in three Indians live on less than $1 a day and India is still home to the world's largest conglomeration of malnourished people. Almost half of the country's children are underweight for their age - which helps to explain the two million child deaths each year.

The latest UN Human Development Report draws attention to the worrying gap that is emerging between economic growth and social progress.
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Kevin Watkins is the director of the UN Development Program's Human Development Report Office

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Tja, ich denke, dass Indien noch einen weiten Weg vor sich hat...
Und soziale und religiöse Spannungen werden mit diesen Entwicklungsdefiziten irgendwann mal auch entstehen, nicht zu vergessen, den Umstand, dass Indien als Demokratie anfällig für sowas ist...