what is the measure strength and weakness of India.
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government in order to improve the quality of human resource and also to put breaks on the rapid growth of our population to some extent. But all these measures have failed to yield desired results or the results have been insignificant as compared to the growth we have been witnessing. The reasons for this are varied ranging democratic compulsions to political expediency on the part of the government and our own languid response to a pressing issue like unhindered population growth.
Now there is an assuring argument doing the rounds that we need not lose sleep over our multiplying numbers because our population itself is our strength and not our weakness as it was once envisaged. The reason for this is that that huge population offers a bigger pool of human resource and hence a bigger consumer market. We wish it were true but the reality is quite different from what we expect it to be. No doubt it is good to be optimistic. However, sticking on to this optimism does not do any good for India because it is not always quantity alone that matters. What matters of course is the quality of our population which is abysmally pedestrian and we cannot for sure say the quality of our humungous population is an asset to our country.
True. In a social or political set up we cannot overlook the potential of a big number. The power of numbers and the potential market created by a huge population can sustain a country to some extent. Many European countries which have been experiencing zero or negative population growth have realized this lacunae as they economy is in shambles and have been offering incentives for people in their countries to encourage them to have more children in order to increase their population. On the other hand we have a few countries (including India) where population is growing unabashedly putting extra burden on our limited infrastructure and negating whatever progress we have achieved. The biggest casualty in our greed to multiply has been the nature which has been ravaged, exploited and squeezed to the tilt leaving very little capacity for her to shower her bounty any more.
So what the world faces today is a problem of either too little or too much of population. For many European countries the negative growth of population in their countries is a worrying factor. There is an imbalance both in quality and quantity of population at the global level. Unfortunately for India its burgeoning population is a cause for concern mainly because the quality of our population is mediocre. Despite some sincere efforts at one stage and some half-hearted measures over the years government policies have failed to bring about any drastic improvement in the quality of our human resource.
Even now people in our country consider that having more children would supplement family's meager income and hence they go for more children. There are people who still believed children are gift of god and fail to realize that more mouths to feed means a sizeable section of our society is deprived of even basic necessities. The quality of our undernourished, poverty stricken, unhealthy, uneducated population will be nothing as compared to those where quality of life in terms of food, shelter, clothing housing, health-care, economic security, old-age care and standard of living is much higher and superior.
Needless to say the productivity of such a population would be much higher than those where the people have to struggle on a daily basis for getting even the basic needs. While countries like China and Japan have taken firm steps to reverse the trend of population growth India is taking it easy thinking that its 1.2 billion population is its asset or strength. But the truth is quite farther from this. We need to take drastic measures and resolutely try to improve the quality of our population to convert it into quality human resource. Or else all our efforts will go down in the drains.
This is easier said than done. Our population can be our strength only when we have the power and strength to feed the people, provide them clothing and shelter, good education, health care and jobs and mould them into an asset. As of now, whatever little
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The world today presents a picture of sharp contrasts between the advanced and backward countries. About one-sixth of world’s population lives in countries which are classified as rich, advanced or developed economy. Developed countries include USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, etc. These developed countries together account for just about 16% of world population with over 77% share in world income, thus enabling their people to have high living standards and better quality of life. On the other hand, four- fifths of world population inhabits the poor or backward countries spread over much of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America. These backward or underdeveloped countries accounting for over 72% of world population have a mere 13% share in world income. In between these developed and underdeveloped countries are some high middle income countries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary, Russia, etc., who account for about 13% of world population and 10% of world income. The underdeveloped or the developing countries are also known as countries of the ‘Third World’ or the Third World Nations. India comes under this category.Economic growth is a process whereby a country’s real national income increases over a long period of time. It thus refers to, increase in country’s real national and per capita income and that this increase is sustained over a long period of time. Economic development not only concerns itself with increase in income, but with its composition and distribution as well. It thus covers the process of achieving long term increase in income, as well as a more equitable income distribution along with adopting some measures of poverty alleviation. In other words, economic development includes growth plus change: change in the structure of output wherein non- agricultural output contributes a larger share of national income than the agricultural output, changes in occupational structure, associated with changes in production structure, changes in institutional and organizational setup, changes in allocation of resources in various lines of production, etc. It includes improvements in material It includes improvements in material welfare, especially of persons with lowest incomes, eradication of mass poverty, illiteracy, disease and early death.