Socioeconomic Dimensions Impinging

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Socio-economic Dimensions Impinging on Regional
Security and Stability
Mohan Guruswamy Centre for Policy
Alternatives www.cpasind.com cpasind_at_yahoo.co.in
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Gross National Income Per Capita Income
World Development Indicators 2006
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Demographic Indicators 2004
Source World Development Indicators 2006
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Poverty rates
World Development Indicators 2006
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Adult Literacy rates 2002
Source World Development Indicators 2006 and
CIA The World Factbook for data on Afghanistan
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Human Development Index Ranking
the Report classifies countries with ranks from
56 to 141 as those with medium human development
and those from 142 to 175 as low human
development nations
Human Development Report, UNDP 2003 and 2006
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Unemployment Rates
Source CIA-World Fact book
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Net Migration rates 2006
Source CIA-World Fact book
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Population Growth of Assam vs. India
Assams population growth rate has remained much
higher than that of Indias average and is an
indicator of immigration from Bangladesh into the
state.
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The Bare Truth

• 37.7 of Indian households do not have access to
  a nearby water source
• 49 do not have a proper shelter
• 69.5 do not have access to suitable toilets
• 85.2 of Indian villages do not have a secondary
  schools
• 43 of Indian villages do not have an
• all-weather road connecting them

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Regional Inequalities (per capita incomes in
2003-04)
Source Central Statistical Organisation,
Government of India
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Poverty map
Source District-Level Deprivation in the New
Millennium, Edited by Bibek Debroy and Laveesh
Bhandari, 2003.
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Trade between India and Bangladesh Over 15 of
Bangladeshi imports (1741 million in 2003-04)
come from India. Illegal trade over and above
official trade between the two countries
estimated at 75 of regular trade. According to
the 2002 surveys Bangladeshs smuggled imports
from India during 2002/03 were approximately
500 million, or about 40 of recorded imports
from India.
Source South Asia, The World Bank and Indias
World by Mohan Guruswamy
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Heroin export from Pakistan 2 billion Afghanistan
produces 5600 tonnes of heroin While Golden
triangle produces 4861 tonnes of heroin US
consumption of narcotics 100billion India is
worlds largest producer of acetic
anhydride Street value of heroin 100-150 per
gram
Source South Asia, The World Bank and Indias
World by Mohan Guruswamy