India

1.    What are the recent achievements and challenges of our country?

India has some frequent natural disasters, with such a large population; this means that lots of Indian’s are affected. Although India has a good system for responding to the disasters when they occur.  Cyclones occur in the bay of

Bengal, and they get damaging earthquakes in the central northern area.

 Deforestation, river and air pollution are major pressures on the environment.

2.   How does poverty affect people in our country?

Poverty affects people in india through disease . there is a high risk of people in india getting a disease. food or waterborne diseases in india are bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever . Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)

3.    How are people represented in the media in our country?

Poor people from India are represented in the media as people with unlucky circumstances as many are without adequate access to fresh water, food, shelter and medical procedures. This is shown to make people aware the poverty in the world. Indian people are also shown in the media to promote people donating to poverty organisations.

Poor people in India are not respected as well as the wealthy people in the media as they are seen as the lower class even through the poor people live in the same country as the expats and wealthy people so in the media often poor people are seen as second class citizens.

4.   How does the government support health and education?

The government has initiated various programs to improve health but India still suffers from health problems linked to poverty, malnutrition, rapid population growth, environmental pollution and neglect of children and women's well being. Life expectancy is about 70 years.

The average income is over three quarters of the population live on less than US $2 a day.

66% of Adults can read and write in India.

% of mobile phones is available to people in India.

The Government spends --- on Education in India per year

1.    What are the aid organisations doing to assist poor people in our country?

World Vision, Caritas, Red Cross, Oxfam and the Catholic Church

2.   How does trade assist our country

The United States of America and China are India’s biggest trading partners. Other major trading partners include United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Germany and Australia. Indian exports mainly are petroleum projects, textiles, gems and jewellery, engineering goods, chemicals and leather manufactures. Indian imports include crude oil, fertilisers, machinery, gems, fertilizer and chemicals. The major Australian export items to India are coal, gold, copper ore and fertilisers; Australia imports electric parts, pearls, gems and medicines from India as well.

3.    What is the average income (GPD per capital (PPP us$))?

4.   What percentages of people live below the national poverty line?

25% of Indies population are living below the poverty.

5.    What percentage of children attends primary school?

Primary education is compulsory in India, but only 66% of adults are literate and there is a big difference between males and females (male: 76.9% and female: 54.5%). This shows males are getting a better education than females.

6.    What percentage of adults can read (adult literacy rate)?

7.    What percentage of people has access to clean water (access to improved drinking water source)?

There are 128 million people living in India with no drinking water.

8.   12zWhat percentage of people has access to sanitation?

The there are 660 million people without access to sanitation in India which is 57%. So there are only 33% of people with access to sanitation.

9.    How old can children expect to live to (What is the life expectancy at birth)?

10.How many mobile (cellular) phones are available per 1000 people?

257.91 Per 1,000 people 

11.  How many internet users?

There are about 52 million uses but compared with the population of India which is 1,155,347,678, it is extremely low.

1.    What percentage of income is owned by the least wealthy 20% of households?

2.   How big is the gap between these the richest and poorest?

 The gap between rich and poor is massive. There is not equality and it is not a fair country. There are very rich places and people in India but there are extremely poor people in India as well. There are shanty towns as well as palaces which are not right and needs to be changed. The gap between rich and poor is huge.

Lowest 10% of money earned: 3.6% of the population-4159251641

Highest 10% of money earned: 31.1% of the population (2005)-3.593131279

3.    How much does the government spend on health?

4.   How much does the government spend on education?

India spends $980 000