Note the above. On BRF, AGupta observed that the Gallup survey above made the news in the US in November 2017, but the INDIA-SPECIFIC portion of it is being deliberately publicized NOW.Trilobite wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:53 pmIs this Gallup poll bad news for 2019? Fewer Indians now feel they are thriving compared to 2014.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourd ... 4ca07203bf
Wages of poor people have gone down too:....only 3% of Indians consider themselves thriving in 2017 compared to 14% in 2014.
Meanwhile, wages paid to low-skilled labor decreased to 10300 INR/Month in 2017 from 13300 INR/Month in 2014.
It seems there is a concerted effort by interested parties to paint a falsely dismal economic picture of India right in time for the WEF at Davos. This picture, of course, has the effect of harming India's leverage and negotiating position at Davos.
Not only this, the WEF itself seems to be involved in the slander. Look at this:
India Ranks Below China, Pakistan On This World Economic Forum Index
https://www.ndtv.com/business/india-ran ... eststories
This "WEF Index" is deliberately contrived so as to supply talking points to the neo-colonialist fifth column by amplifying the tired rhetoric of the global left. The principal criterion is a nebulous and virtue-signaling "inclusiveness", supposedly determined by "taking into account" living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness.Norway remains the world's most inclusive advanced economy, while Lithuania again tops the list of emerging economies, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said while releasing the yearly index here before the start of its annual meeting, to be attended by several world leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump.
The index takes into account the "living standards, environmental sustainability and protection of future generations from further indebtedness", the WEF said. It urged the leaders to urgently move to a new model of inclusive growth and development, saying reliance on GDP as a measure of economic achievement is fuelling short-termism and inequality.
India was ranked 60th among 79 developing economies last year, as against China's 15th and Pakistan's 52nd position.
The 2018 index, which measures progress of 103 economies on three individual pillars -- growth and development; inclusion; and inter-generational equity -- has been divided into two parts. The first part covers 29 advanced economies and the second 74 emerging economies.
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Among advanced economies, Norway is followed by Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Denmark in the top five.
Small European economies dominate the top of the index, with Australia (9) the only non-European economy in the top 10. Of the G7 economies, Germany (12) ranks the highest. It is followed by Canada (17), France (18), the UK (21), the US (23), Japan (24) and Italy (27).
The top-five most inclusive emerging economies are Lithuania, Hungary, Azerbaijan, Latvia and Poland.
Performance is mixed among BRICS economies, with the Russian Federation ranking 19th, followed by China (26), Brazil (37), India (62) and South Africa (69).
Of the three pillars that make up the index, India ranks 72nd for inclusion, 66th for growth and development and 44th for inter-generational equity.
The neighbouring countries ranked above India include Sri Lanka (40), Bangladesh (34) and Nepal (22). The countries ranked better than India also include Mali, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ghana, Ukraine, Serbia, Philippines, Indonesia, Iran, Macedonia, Mexico, Thailand and Malaysia.
One of many nonsensical "HDI" contrivances that invariably place Scandinavian Welfare Paradises on the very top so that they can wag their peremptory fingers at everyone else. That itself shows who the foreign protagonists and chief proponents of this propaganda instrument are.
Do they have collaborators in India? Of course. The usual suspects (Congis, Casteists, Leftists, Breaking India Forces) will shout from the rooftops about how India's economic growth has not been "inclusive". They will endlessly replay the propaganda in their attempts to prey on voters' worst instincts of insecurity and resentment.
Not only that, there is a cause-effect relationship. Because they have portrayed the Indian economic growth story as flawed, India stands to gain less advantages from whatever happens at Davos this time. This will have consequences for the Indian economy (if not negative, then dampening the positive outcomes we could have amassed in the absence of such a motivated propaganda assault). Those consequences in turn will impact what the picture looks like in 2019. Time will tell how severe the impact will be, but the fact remains that the Breaking India Forces, along with their foreign sponsors, are waging an economic war on the country (in addition to the political, sociological and kinetic wars we know about).