India and Asian Space Race

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7679818.stm

So India has the money to go to the moon, but:

One-third of India's population (roughly equivalent to the entire population of the United States) lives below the poverty line and India is home to one-third of the world's poor people.

Though the middle class has gained from recent positive economic developments, India suffers from substantial poverty. According to the new World Bank's estimates on poverty based on 2005 data, India has 456 million people, 41.6% of its population, living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 (PPP) per day. The World Bank further estimates that 33% of the global poor now reside in India. Moreover, India also has 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below $2 a day, compared to 72.2% for Sub-Saharan Africa



Also the UK government gives money to India to ease the poverty.

Should India be focussing on going to the moon, or helping it's people out of poverty?

Discuss, organise a pissup, or post utter utter crap.

[snaw]

Discuss, organise a pissup, or post utter utter crap.

I'll stick to option C thanks.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Can we get India and Pakistan to nuke each other and solve several problems at the same time?

[thunderlizard]

One-third of India's population (roughly equivalent to the entire population of the United States) lives below the poverty line and India is home to one-third of the world's poor people.

Based on those stats, we can deduce that 100% of people in the world live in India. Mine's a Lamb Bhuna please.

[themistry]

Can we get India and Pakistan to nuke each other and solve several problems at the same time?

Erm, I think nuking Pakistan (and neighbouring regions) would solve most/all problems...

TM

[themistry]

Based on those stats, we can deduce that 100% of people in the world live in India. Mine's a Lamb Bhuna please.

Isn't that 100% of the worlds poor live in India?

[sasguru]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7679818.stm

So India has the money to go to the moon, but:

One-third of India's population (roughly equivalent to the entire population of the United States) lives below the poverty line and India is home to one-third of the world's poor people.

Though the middle class has gained from recent positive economic developments, India suffers from substantial poverty. According to the new World Bank's estimates on poverty based on 2005 data, India has 456 million people, 41.6% of its population, living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 (PPP) per day. The World Bank further estimates that 33% of the global poor now reside in India. Moreover, India also has 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below $2 a day, compared to 72.2% for Sub-Saharan Africa



Also the UK government gives money to India to ease the poverty.

Should India be focussing on going to the moon, or helping it's people out of poverty?

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Are you advocating socialism?
After all we brought the chavs out of poverty here by giving them 1.2 million houses and plasma screen TVs and look at the state of us.

[thunderlizard]

Isn't that 100% of the worlds poor live in India?

That also follows from the proposition.

[Spacecadet]

One way of reducing poverty is to provide jobs... something which a space programme and related industries will provide plenty of.

Don't forget that in countries like India, a job which in the UK might employ 1 (or less) people, in India labour is so cheap that about 5 would be employed.

[expat]

Based on those stats, we can deduce that 100% of people in the world live in India. Mine's a Lamb Bhuna please.