[Assam] Surprising! India more equality than USA, Canada or Brazil

[umesh sharma]

He He Mukul-da,

Perhaps you are right. 

Umesh

--- mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:


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 Have to remember George Bernard Shaw's classic
observation " Lies, Damned lies,--- Statistics"

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From:  umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
Reply-To:  umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu
To:  assam at assamnet.org
Subject:  [Assam] Surprising! India more equality than
USA, Canada or Brazil
Date:  Fri, 1 Sep 2006 04:07:25 +0100 (BST)
>A quick look at CIA Factbook's figures reveals that
in
>India there is more equality of income consumption
>than in US or Canada or Brazil.
>
>In India top 10% populaton (by income) consumes 33%
of
>the income
>and bottom 10% consumes 3.5% --shocking ?
>
>https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html
>
>See for US
>
>top 10% --- 33%
>bottom 10% ---1.8%
>
>for Canada:
>
>top 10% ---23% better than India
>bottom 10%--2.5% worse
>
>Brazil even worse:
>top 10% ---37%
>bottom 10% ---0.7% ONLY!!
>
>Any comments?
>
>Umesh
>PS: Indian economy is slightly bigger than Brazil's
>(at 700 Billion USD) and smaller than Canada's US$1.0
>trillion
>
>
>Umesh Sharma
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Umesh Sharma
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College Park, MD 20740 USA

Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada

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Canada # (607) 221-9433

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
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Harvard University,
Class of 2005

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