Patralekha Chatterjee | India’s pride, prejudice and its global rankings
Deccan ChronicleIndia’s relationship with global rankings has always had shades of Jane Austen. Which brings me to two headline-grabbers in recent weeks -- India overtaking the United Kingdom to become the world’s fifth-largest economy around the same time that the Human Development Report 2021–22, brought out by the UN Development Programme, showed that India’s global rankings have gone down. Mean years of schooling refers to the average number of completed years of education of a population and is a widely used measure of a country’s stock of human capital. Impressively, India has lifted a staggering 271 million out of multi-dimensional poverty over the last decade and the country is improving access to clean water, sanitation, and affordable clean energy, the UNDP’s Human Development Report acknowledges. India consistently falls short of the goal of its own National Health Policy -- spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on health.
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