Two-thirds of South Asians are living in poverty and only a redistribution of the benefits of economic growth will lift them out of the rut, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official said on Thursday.
| Ummm... Isn't that how they got in the rut? |
"Two-thirds of the people in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan live below the poverty line of $ 2 per day," said ADB Vice President Geert van der Linden.
| Bangla is a basket case country, ripped apart by sectarianism and oozing corruption. IT'S THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, more corrupt than Nigeria, fergawdsake! Pakland is priest-riddled, from corner to corner, chock full of Pashtuns wallowing in equal measures of ignorance and arrogance, the whole of it periodically torn apart by sectarian shootouts and explosions. Nepal started out dirt poor, was overrun by screaming Maoists, and things have gone downhill from there. And India used to be dirt poor, dumped the wealth redistribution approach, and started getting prosperous. Now that the Congress party's back in power we can probably start saving our leftovers to ship off to the starving children — because all the wealth is gonna be redistributed. |
"It is clear the struggle against poverty in Asia will be protracted. Policy makers must focus on generating high rates of sustainable growth and also ensure the benefits of that growth are evenly spread in society," he said.
| With the possible exception of India, policy makers should concentrate on rounding up their local nutbags and either killing them or incarcerating them for extended periods, like up to 200 years. Then they might see high rates of "sustainable" growth. |
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