Modern Day Issues
The problems originating colonization still exists to this day.
- Poverty is a big problem in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Around 22% of the population across the three countries live below the poverty line according to UN figures.
- Lack of quality education affects all three countries as well as many schools in all three lack adequeate infastructure or resources.
- It accounts for a 5% loss in GDP
- Sanitation is also a major problem in all countries and as many as half a million died from diahrea in India alone in 2006.
- Sanitation has ben estimated to cause a 6% loss in GDP
- Another problem that affects all countries is corruption as high-level government officials in all three have been involved in multiple multibillion dollar scandals in recent years