Best countries to live in, in the world.

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How could they miss out on India bhai?

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India is the best Sumit. jibbe te inn survey aalyan nei India kadhh diya list meh tein? Thanx for the educative post dear.
 
hey i am very much in agreement with dahiya uncle, india quality life is best and worst...................best you have emotional people to care in( maa n papa),woh gaon,woh dilli ki bhid bhari galiya(pathways n alleys),woh dost and worst are services that cause headache
 
Hahahaha!

Dev Sir! as always, I admire how you find humor in everything.

I agree with you. I have a good time back home. Infact, a very good time. Just before I read your post, I was browsing through mine and my brother's pictures from our trip to India. Some pictures make me smile, others make me very emotional. Even though there is widespread poverty, people seem to be happy with whatever they have, while they strive to ahieve more. Its amazing how little things can put smiles on faces. People in developed countries need a lot more to make them happy and satisfied. They can never rival our spirit.

Three cheers for india!

devdahiya said:
How could they miss out on India bhai?

1] India
151] India


India is the best Sumit. jibbe te inn survey aalyan nei India kadhh diya list meh tein? Thanx for the educative post dear.
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devdahiya said:
How could they miss out on India bhai?

1] India
151] India


India is the best Sumit. jibbe te inn survey aalyan nei India kadhh diya list meh tein? Thanx for the educative post dear.
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very true ,dev sir........lakin ib too kalam apney haath mein hai......
india is best...........................:p
 
"Best Countries"

“Best Countries”

Friends, the figures given in the article of “The Economist” and those in the latest UNDP report differ slightly. The following paragraphs contain my personal views and in democracy, everyone has the right to be ‘agreed to disagree’

During the last decade, our national income has increased many-fold. However, national income is not a guarantee for the public prosperity. Our foreign exchange reserves have increased, SENSEX is flying high, there is also an increase in the number of degree colleges, nursing homes, costly four-wheeled vehicles, Lap-top computers and costly mobile phones. Yet, poverty has also risen. In the case of child mortality, every fifty child’s death is that of an Indian child. This is the sole reason that in the UNDP’s latest annual report, India figures at 127th place. Norway is at the 1st place, Canada 5th, USA 10th and Japan at the 11th place – China (85th) and Sri Lanka (93rd) are also ahead of India. Ireland, like India, was under British occupation and gained independence in 1921.

The UNDP Report has praised poor countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam and Uganda which have made progress in the sphere of human development despite their low national incomes. Actually, there cannot be any universally accepted definition of development - UNDP has based its report on the factors like child mortality rate, average age of citizens, easy availability of primary/secondary education, public healthcare facilities, per capita income and gender equality etc. Norway, Canada and Ireland have gained the literacy rate of 99 per cent. China has gained the literacy rate of 84.1% and a per capita income of 890 Dollars. The UNDP report is actually a challenge to the human angle of India’s economic liberalization – our national income has increased, not the per capita income.

New statistical figures were prepared by various Govt. agencies through dividing the national income by the total population – actually 25-30 crore people (one-fourth of total population) grabbed the entire benefit of this increased national income. Economic prosperity did come for a fraction of population but unemployment was also on the rise, and our traditional cultural values were on the decay. Thousands of girls were dragged into prostitution (or ‘call girls’), farmers committed suicide, labourers agitating for genuine demands were fired by police. For those who grabbed the national income got the things of their choice – costly restaurants, imported liquor, private nursing homes, dance bars, casinos and private schools. Production of cars increased, air services and related facilities too were on the rise but public transport system flopped.

Slogans of the last government - ‘India Shining’ or ‘Bharat Uday’ were rejected by our masses in the last national election – a surprise to many foreigners and our NRI brothers.

Actually our planners aimed only at Foreign Direct Investment, not at education, quality of life, health and purchasing power of the common masses. There is no dearth of hospitals and drugs in the country, yet the health care has become extremely costly. State health services are sick – how a nation which is unable to render basic treatment to its masses – can claim to be a developed country? Availability of safe drinking water to masses no longer seems to be the duty of State/ Central Governments – MNCs have bottled this gift of nature (water). Same is the situation of electric supply. Our country is really a rich country inhibited by the poor.

For UNDP statistics, please click the following link:

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/pdf/presskit/HDR05_PKE_HDI.pdf

 
correction

In my article above, in the second para, last word of 5th line:

the word 'fifty' may please be read as 'fifth'.
 
Having lived in six countries, visited more than 20 countries, spread over four continents (only Austrialia is left where I have not been), it is difficult to say which country is better. Good or bad is not in a place, it is in your head. Notwithstanding I love my country, it is the best. "Oh mother India so what if I am playing the game of life in alien streets, when it's the time for last nap, I'd love only your lap.
 
ramksehrawat said:
Having lived in six countries, visited more than 20 countries, spread over four continents (only Austrialia is left where I have not been), it is difficult to say which country is better. Good or bad is not in a place, it is in your head. Notwithstanding I love my country, it is the best. "Oh mother India so what if I am playing the game of life in alien streets, when it's the time for last nap, I'd love only your lap.
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So true Sehrawat Sahab.. Insan ki akhiri khuwaaish hamesh upnee mitti me milne ki rehtee hain.. Like Salmen fish we all carry the desire to go back to the very place where we were born..

RK^2
 
India is our own country and despite the shortcomings in the administrative and political setup, it is great and shall remain so. For us, it is in the core of our hearts. The point of discussion here is the economic parameters of a nation based on modern economics - on the basis of which various foreign magazines and international organisations publish data and list us below the worst and rogue states. Their findings are more based on the realities and condition of common man. Foreigners visiting India write articles on their own assumptions and current realities. We should not shy away from the healthy criticism (though some of the foreigners have biased attitude towards our country) - but we should try to ameliorate the situation of common masses in the country.
 
Very True

Dear Worthy members keeping in mind what our worthy senior and other memebers have to say about it.
Its quite obvious to get emphatic here if we dont c our motherland on any of these surveys......;)
http://www.photius.com/rankings/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2149799.stm#table
http://www.aneki.com/best.htmlhttp://www.scandinavica.com/culture/society/UNreport.htm
http://store.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=pr_story&press_id=660001866&ref=pr_list
Therez no limit to these sites and surveys.
And u will find all these s#^t scandinavian countries taking the top slot.
But again these are the surveys actuallly and to some extent true and intensive reports. If we really browse the web/net and do some homework we will find that European nations are indeed leading in quality of life and African nations are far back due to lack of structure and poverty or what ever the reasons are, as these leading countries offer extreme condition for the living and so are less populated but developed at he same time so they can afford to stand people.Nordic countries and East Asian tigers top the rankings in the World Economic Forum's 2005 competitiveness rankings.
On the other hand developing nations like us really have to lay are backs and look at the current market and other politican factors which are the actual cause of stagnation.
We just wanna sit back and post our coments in these forums but what are we doing actually:rolleyes: to feel us proud......which is quite easy to do.;)
Why NORWAY is the best country 2nd time in a row & offers the best quality of life. Simply becoz they cant afford to stand a population burden yet like we do and they have such a small state of affairs.........:D:D
Finland remains the most competitive economy in the world and tops the rankings for the third consecutive year in The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006, released by the World Economic Forum. The United States is in second position, followed by Sweden, Denmark, Taiwan and Singapore, respectively.
...."So if all these small countries more or less same size as of our own JATLAND "Haryana" can dare to be there. Why not us open our eyes and look ahead to make us feel proud"......
As I think its us.....individuals..... who have to actually stand and Do some thing rather then talk about the system bhlah bhlah.....
It will take time but atleast we have to look thru the crack of our EGG.
 
It is not so simple

Keshav, your frustration is well taken but do you think that the members counting India as a good nation are less concerned or aware of the internal prevailing condition of this country? I think all are fairly well educated and are aware of the defficiencies but can do hardly anything [we all are contributing in nation building in some or other way] Do you think by showing the concerns of your kind will expedite the progress and suppose all the members start thinking exactly the way you do...will it make any difference to the prevailing conditions. We ought to be a little more accomodating of others views and less cynical of at the same time. I wish to state once more that INDIA is best in many respects inspite of or irrespective of this stupid survey.
 
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Thanx but no thanx for reminding me

devdahiya said:
Keshav, your frustration is well taken but do you think that the members counting India as a good nation are less concerned or aware of the internal prevailing condition of this country? I think all are fairly well educated and are aware of the defficiencies but can do hardly anything [we all are contributing in nation building in some or other way] Do you think by showing the concerns of your kind will expedite the progress and suppose all the members start thinking exactly the way you do...will it make any difference to the prevailing conditions. We ought to be a little more accomodating of others views and less cynical of at the same time. I wish to state once more that INDIA is best in many respects inspite of or irrespective of this stupid survey.
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Now dahiya Uncle I think u didnt read my text properly and if u did it, I think u took it the other way round in negative sense. I did not mention any thing about India as lacking instead, I just presented the true picture about a few bloody scandinavian nations(if u read it again carefully before commentig again)...:D:D as to why these surveys and reports have ranked them ahead.
Of course India is the best in some sense, thats undeniably true...didnt u see that. AND infact I had a motivating coment so as to open our eyes to work on that instead of of sheer frustation that u mentioned;)
Neiter I m commenting on those expert comments above and truely respect as to what was said,
But if u think that its really necessary for u to comment on every Thread than it some thing else:rolleyes:
 
No Keshav i don't comment on every thread but only when i feel strongly about anything i do with full conviction at my disposal. Kindly take it easy. If you think your comments were right then things are taken care of and otherwise you are convinced...so there is nothing to debate.Cheers !
 
"When globalisation leaves people behind"

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This is concerning the current debate on the topic. An article authored by Kevin Watkins, director of UNDP's Human Development Report Office, has been published in the International Herald Tribune in its issue of 13 February 2006. The article is reproduced below and makes an interesting reading.

When globalization leaves people behind

Kevin Watkins International Herald Tribune

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006


NEW YORK 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.

What is going wrong? Part of the problem is that economic growth has been built on a narrow base. The information technology sector, for example, has so far created around one million jobs - but meanwhile, the labor force is expanding by about eight million a year. Broadening and deepening the growth process in labor-intensive manufacturing and in rural areas is vital.

The more profound challenge is to tackle head-on the deep-rooted inequalities that are holding back social progress, especially the deep inequalities in opportunity that divide women and men.

These inequalities start at birth, with fatal consequences. Girls aged from 1 to 5 face a 50 per cent higher risk of childhood mortality than their brothers, reflecting disadvantages in access to nutrition and health provision. That statistic translates into 130,000 "missing" girl children - deaths that would be averted each year if death rates for girls were the same as those for boys.

Overlapping with these gender-based differences are wider inequalities. Child mortality rates among the poorest 20 per cent are more than three times higher than among the richest. And there are glaring gaps between the northern "poverty belt" states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and more successful states such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala. With a population larger than Nigeria, Uttar Pradesh immunizes only one in five children against the major childhood diseases.

Accelerating social progress will require more than sustained economic growth, critical as that may be. As Amartya Sen has written: "Even a hundred Bangalores and Hyderabads will not, on their own, solve India's tenacious poverty and deep-seated inequality."

In 2004, India's electorate decisively rejected a government that celebrated "Brand Bangalore" instead of focusing on spreading prosperity more widely. Since then, the Congress-led government, has set a new course. Legislation has been approved for a $2.5 billion a year scheme that targets poor rural areas through public works programs. In last year's budget, the government signaled a far sharper focus on education, imposing a tax surcharge to fund a $1 billion increase in spending this year.

Across rural India, the public health system, starved of resources, has become a byword for clinics that lack drugs and trained staff. If current budget plans are implemented, health spending will rise from less than 1 per cent of national income to 3 per cent.

Changing public spending priorities is difficult. But changing the structures that consign India's rural poor, especially poor women, to a lifetime of disadvantage is more difficult still. It will require fundamental changes in governance and - more important - in public attitudes to gender equality.

The challenges are immense. But economic growth and a thriving democracy provide India with an opportunity to become a real globalization success story.

(Kevin Watkins is the director of the UN Development Program's Human Development Report Office)

 
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