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    Quote Originally Posted by badkuk View Post
    funny thing about india, they have a nuclear weapons program, but close to/more than 90% of its population live in poverty. That's not what i would call progress.

    :peace:
    Well,its not 90% but only 42%.

    2005 World Bank estimate, 42% of India's falls below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day (PPP, in nominal terms Rs. 21.6 a day in urban areas and Rs 14.3 in rural areas); having reduced from 60% in 1980
    This can be partly explained by their closed and rigid social stratification system called caste system thats why alot of people in India are still poor.

    But, still India is now part of the prestigious so-called BRIC countries and among the highly industrialized "developing" countries aside from Brazil, Russian Federation and China.

    :peace:
    Last edited by jpdm; September 23rd, 2009 at 05:18 PM.

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