Infant mortality worse in India
India is behind even its poorer neighbour Bangladesh in fighting infant mortality and child malnutrition during the last decade, a senior Asian Development Bank official said here on Wednesday.
By PTI |
BEIJING: India is behind even its poorer neighbour Bangladesh in fighting infant mortality and child malnutrition during the last decade, a senior Asian Development Bank official said here on Wednesday.
Over the last 10 years, infant mortality and child nutrition situation in India has worsened to the extent that the country is performing more badly than Bangladesh, Ifzal Ali, Chief Economist of ADB, told reporters here while launching the flagship annual statistical publication of the bank, 'Key Indicators 2007'.
Among India's poorest families, as many as 28 per cent of children are severely underweight, he said.
Showing concern over rising inequality in the region, the Bank said that while salaries for English-speaking graduates are zooming in India as the country's information technology sector booms, pay for unskilled labour is stagnating.
"Widening differentials in earnings of the college-educated vis-a-vis less-educated individuals appear to be the single most important observable factor accounting for increasing inequality," the ADB said.
As for the links between market-oriented reforms, globalisation, and technology on the one hand and unevenness in growth across households on the other, several channels appear to be operating, the Manila-based lender said.
The fact that the earnings of the best educated have increased most rapidly in so many countries is consistent with the popular argument that closer international integration has introduced "skill biased" technologies to the developing world, it said.
Over the last 10 years, infant mortality and child nutrition situation in India has worsened to the extent that the country is performing more badly than Bangladesh, Ifzal Ali, Chief Economist of ADB, told reporters here while launching the flagship annual statistical publication of the bank, 'Key Indicators 2007'.
Among India's poorest families, as many as 28 per cent of children are severely underweight, he said.
Showing concern over rising inequality in the region, the Bank said that while salaries for English-speaking graduates are zooming in India as the country's information technology sector booms, pay for unskilled labour is stagnating.
"Widening differentials in earnings of the college-educated vis-a-vis less-educated individuals appear to be the single most important observable factor accounting for increasing inequality," the ADB said.
As for the links between market-oriented reforms, globalisation, and technology on the one hand and unevenness in growth across households on the other, several channels appear to be operating, the Manila-based lender said.
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The fact that the earnings of the best educated have increased most rapidly in so many countries is consistent with the popular argument that closer international integration has introduced "skill biased" technologies to the developing world, it said.
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