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The Noble Laureate, Amartya Sen, has lauded Bangladesh’s advancement in several social sectors, particularly in life expectance, child health and mortality, fertility rate, and female literacy in companion to those in India. Despite lower rate of GNP in comparison to its big neighbour, Bangladesh did reasonably well in various facets of its human development segments, he added. Dr Sen made this observation at an article carried by TheTelegraph Thursday under the headline “An exclusive emphasis on GNP growth can be harmful.” In it he said that higher GNP could “reduce various indicators of poverty and deprivation, and to expand different features of quality of life, but it could never be “a good predictor of valuable features of our lives”.

In this instance, he compared India with Bangladesh, and said though India enjoyed “a huge lead over Bangladesh” in terms of par capita income (India’s $1,170 to $590 in Bangladesh), but “India’s income advantage” didn’t seeped into areas for human well-beings.

The Noble Laureate compared life expectancy of two countries, and said “Life expectancy in Bangladesh is 66.9 years compared with India’s 64.4. The proportion of underweight children in Bangladesh (41.3 per cent) is lower than that in India (43.5), and its fertility rate (2.3) is also lower than India’s (2.7). Mean years of schooling amount to 4.8 years in Bangladesh compared with India’s 4.4 years”.

Conceding India’s higher male literacy rate in age group of 15 to 24 in comparison to Bangladesh, Dr Sen said “the female rate in Bangladesh is higher than in India. Interestingly, the female literacy rate among young Bangladeshis is actually higher than the male rate, whereas young women still have substantially lower rates than young males in India”. He opined “Bangladesh’s current progress has a great deal to do with the role that liberated Bangladeshi women are beginning to play in the country”.

Dr Sen was full of praise for real good work in the fields of health services in Bangladesh. He said in child mortality and child immunization fields it showcased its success. He said in Bangladesh “mortality rate of children under five is sixty-six per thousand in India compared with fifty-two in Bangladesh. In infant mortality, Bangladesh has a similar advantage: it is fifty per thousand in India and forty-one in Bangladesh. While 94 percent of Bangladeshi children are immunized with DPT vaccine, only 66 per cent of Indian children are”.

At the same time, Dr Sen opined that “Bangladesh’s living conditions will benefit greatly from higher economic growth, particularly if the country uses it as a means of doing good things, rather than treating economic growth and high per capita income as ends in themselves”. In this respect, he lauded the “committed public policies of the government and “the imaginative activism” of its NGOs leading the achievement of this “result”. While saying that “But higher income, including larger public resources, will obviously enhance Bangladesh’s ability to achieve better lives for its people”.
 
I think, the same thread was opened a few months ago. OK if people want to prticipate and discuss. Thing is, Amartya Sen is basically from Bangladesh, but later went to India from where he moved to USA. He has fond memories of bangladesh. He gave much of his Nobel Prize money to BD sometime during the first AL term.
 
Thread title should have been Bangladehs is doing better than indian in a few areas . But still good going Bangladesh

I presume it is very encouraging for Bangladesh to do better than India.

My congratulations to Bangladesh for achieving such a landmark.

It appears that the Bangladesh Government is delivering and doing better than ever before.

I am sure Bangaldeshi posters here will be proud of their achievement, government and their country.

We should join in to congratulate them, their country and their government.
 
I think, the same thread was opened a few months ago. OK if people want to prticipate and discuss. Thing is, Amartya Sen is basically from Bangladesh, but later went to India from where he moved to USA. He has fond memories of bangladesh. He gave much of his Nobel Prize money to BD sometime during the first AL term.

Sen was born to a Bengali Hindu family in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. His ancestral home was in Wari, Dhaka..they migrated to India after partition when bangladesh did not exist..
Manmohan singh is from pakistan..Musharraf from India :D
 
I presume it is very encouraging for Bangladesh to do better than India.

My congratulations to Bangladesh for achieving such a landmark.

It appears that the Bangladesh Government is delivering and doing better than ever before.

I am sure Bangaldeshi posters here will be proud of their achievement, government and their country.

We should join in to congratulate them, their country and their government.

Much of the results described in the article were brought about by NGOs. BRAC (Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee) for example is the largest NGO in the world. It has operations around various countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Haiti and various African countries.
 
Alhamdulillah, we are doing OK but we still have to travel many more miles to reach the desire destination. Our poverty level still too high so there is no room for us to laid back and relax.

We appreciate Mr. Amartya Sen recognition.
 
Based on my own personal experience in Bangladesh and India, i find this quite surprising to be honest. But good job anyway, Bangladesh. I wish the best to you and your proud people :)
 
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Sen was born to a Bengali Hindu family in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. His ancestral home was in Wari, Dhaka, then part of India; now Bangladesh which became a new country in 1971 following its separation from Pakistan which, in turn, was formed as a result of the partition of British India in 1947
 

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