The Human Development Index (HDI) was developed in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq. It is a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide & is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare.
In the list of top thirty countries ranked on the basis of HDI, there is not a single Islamic country even though they control most of the world’s oil & the associated revenue.
Is it because the concept of blind faith does not allow for rational thinking which is a must for scientific progress? Or because of the intolerance practised in Islam - no tolerance for criticism or the other point of view, or the inability to accept that there is a problem (most of the answerers here point out to the problems in other communities or religions which is not a solution).
Pl do not take this criticism but as a search for answers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdi
2006-09-12
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