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> A poor or lower-middle income family has very very few escape routes into middle income group. Educational credentials is one of the best ways This is true u
by nsonha 5y ago
> A poor or lower-middle income family has very very few escape routes into middle income group. Educational credentials is one of the best ways
This is true universally, so I don't think it explains why some people in some countries are extra desperate to get degrees
- tangoalpha 5y agoThe desperation is more in countries where being in poor or lower-middle income family restricts access to affordable quality schooling for kids, affordable sheltering, quality medicine or insurance. Hence you see more such desperation in under-developed or developing countries like India.
- ghoda 5y agoThere is an extreme lack of professional educational institutions in India.
- wyclif 5y agoDon't forget, India has the caste social system which is what differentiates their brand of toxic status, social, and income climbing.
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- scratcheee 5y agoIndia is currently undergoing the inflection point of development. There's a _lot_ of very poor people in India, vastly more so than in a "fully developed" nation. But at the same time, India's recent economic growth is enormous, giving a far larger percentage of the population opportunities they've never had before. But there's enormous competition for those opportunities. So basically it's the right moment (more like "right half century") for India to have this problem, there's so much opportunity but also so much competition, that each small step forwards academically can mean a jumping a generation ahead of the curve on economic growth. To put it another way, you can model economic development by chucking a lump of meat to a school of starving piranhas.
- nsonha 5y agoaren't China and SEA in the same position? Either they have the same fake degree problem as India, or something else is at play here.