India eliminates extreme poverty (www.brookings.edu)

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[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 32 points 7 months ago

All but eliminates would be more accurate but still extremely surprising to me. I can't say I'm a fan of the rising tension in India between Hindus and Muslims stoked on by Modi but they're obviously delivering great results in combatting inequality and lifting people of out poverty.

The most encouraging numbers in there were for sure the decline in the Gini coefficient, most countries see worsening inequality so it's very encouraging to see a nation as large as India being able to combat it.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, that is amazing.

Also this seems incredible:

As an example, rural access to piped water in India as of 15th August 2019 was 16.8% and at present it is 74.7%.

A lot of pipes in a very short time?!

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

I don't know how they define "piped water" but I would bet it means "ran a pipe from the river into town" so that it doesn't have to be carried in buckets a long way, not domestic water supplies.

But just building it once doesn't mean they'll maintain it, either. It doesn't mean much if it falls apart a few years from now.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sounds similar to what we need to do in America(except repairs/replacements also). It revitalizes economies to have all those workers in their area for such a time lol