India employment salaries are very similar to the UK for technical jobs such as engineers. Five years ago, when looking at restructuring a USA listed company, it came as a shock to the Americans that employing Engineers in the UK were a lower cost option than India!India 7.8% and desperately poor https://www.brookings.edu/blog/futu...dard-time-for-a-higher-poverty-line-in-india/Free market theorists would say that the Indian peasants should pull their fingers out and work a lot harder. Then they can buy their own clean drinking water and lavatories when they've earned enough.
The number of millionaire in India is due to at least double by 2026, a faster rate than the UK.
There is huge disparity in the distribution of wealth in India and opportunity, but this is probably more to do with the class system than anything else. Let’s not forget India is a nuclear state with a space program, not the obvious signs of a poor country.
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