Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.
In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.
We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.