Activity 2

1. Our Planet Money team has this story from India’s capital Delhi.

2. You walk by a mansion that's being built: three floors, giant bathrooms with Italian marble.

There's a swimming pool being built in the basement.

3. Singh's store - if you can call it that - is the space between two stacks of bricks that function as walls.

4. In India, the gap between rich and poor is getting wider. And you have to wonder: Is that just what happens in fast-growing economies, or is there something wrong here?

5. The Hindu rate of growth is stuck at 3.5% but from 2003 it is 9%.

1. India's economy is growing more than twice faster than ours - over 8 percent a year –

Answer: India’s economy is growing more than twice as fast as ours - over 8 percent a year -

2. The usual route for poor people to stop being poor is that as new higher-paying jobs open up, the economy grows

Answer: The usual route for poor people to stop being poor is that as the economy grows, new, higher-paying jobs open up.

3. …for the very poorest, the first rung on that ladder is a - making something, T-shirts or furniture and manufacturing job.

Answer: And typically, for the very poorest, the first rung on that ladder is a manufacturing job - making something, T-shirts or furniture.