Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes-A Dismal Scientist's Occasional Reflections on the World around Him

摘要

According to United Nations Development, India's growth rate averages around 8 per cent annually in the previous five years (2010-2014). Despite that there are more poor people in India than in 26 African countries combined, a largest number of hungry people in the world are in India. India accounts for 36 per cent of the world's adult illiterate population, 54 per cent of all severely and moderately underweight under-5 children live in India, 600 million defecate in the open, the highest in the world and 11 per cent seats in parliament held by women which is less than Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.