India, being the fourth largest economy is the world, with a population of 1.2 billion has shown some great growth and development in the recent years. Over the 67 years of independence, India has made a milestone agricultural revolution that has converted the nation from long-lasting reliance on agricultural imports to now the global agricultural powerhouse and exporter of the same. Other than agricultural developments, India has seen drastic developments in life expectancy, that has more than doubled, literacy rates that have increased fourfold and health conditions have upgraded for the better reducing the poverty and therefore helping in the emergence of a large middle class population. India is also well known for some of it globally known companies in pharmaceuticals, steel, information and space technologies.
India has the potential to have the largest, youngest workforce in the world. A major credit of this also goes to the large scale urbanization taking place in the nation. About 10 million people are a part of this, making it the largest rural-urban migration of the centur...
With a population of over 1.2 billion India is sadly at the top of the chain with the largest number of child laborers in the world. India has a poverty rate of twenty five percent with fifty percent of the population being under the age of twenty five years old (Graham). In India agriculture is the norm for working. The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that seventy percent of child labor in India is in agriculture or related acti...
This is necessary as the vast majority of individuals migrating from rural to urban centers has been steadily increasing with the level of economic growth seen within the past twenty years as mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, this situation has further shown the structural issues and inequalities of cities, as most migrants end up having a poor quality of life living in informal settlements as highlight substantially by Boo. As a means of tackling this, however, the Indian government has turned its focus on investing rural regions, developing the agricultural sector. Specifically, Boo mentions that “the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, had come down from Delhi to express his concern for the farmers’ hardships, and the central government’s determination to relieve it” (p. 138). While this is definitely important funds are not being divided justly. For starters, between rural and urban areas almost all investments are being targeting towards rural regions, which is only addressing issues of inequality in one section of the country. Furthermore, across rural areas inequalities of investment are quite often overlooked. Although, “one of the governments hopes was to stop villagers from abandoning their farms and further inundating cities like Mumbai, but Asha’s relatives knew nothing of these celebrated relief programs” (p. 138). Therefore, even though
Since the beginning of humankind, the study of geography has captured the imagination of the people. In ancient times, geography books extolled tales of distant lands and dreamed of treasures. The ancient Greeks created the word "geography" from the roots "ge" for earth and "grapho" for "to write." These people experienced many adventures and needed a way to explain and communicate the differences between various lands. Today, researchers in the field of geography still focus on people and cultures (cultural geography), and the planet earth (physical geography).
Today, India is the second most populous country in the world and in 2050 this country – continent should overtake the giant Chinese and to be the largest society in the world with more than 1,6 billion of people. In India, more than 15 million marriages take place each year.
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India, the second highest populated country in the world after China, with 1.27 billion people currently recorded to be living there and equates for 17.31% (India Online Pages 2014) of the world's population, but is still considered a developing country due to it’s poverty and illiteracy rates. As these nations continue to grow at rates that are too fast for resources to remain sustainable, the government’s in these areas wi...
...an HDI of 0.36. These discrepancies in levels of development have led to an exodus of people, from less developed areas to the areas that have been benefitted by development. This situation seems to depict that predicted by the Dependency theory in which the developed countries progressed due to the exploitation of peripheral nations; the same seems to be happening in India. The states that are wealthier are exploiting the poorer states. It would be difficult to imagine India having the economic status that it now has, if it was not for the terrible working conditions and wages at which the Indians are willing to work and the massive work force available in the country. Now that India has seen economic growth the government should start taking care of its citizens by implementing policies that protect the labor rights of the workforce.
While these industries made a solid foundation for India’s industrial environment today, these also suffered from several drawbacks. To name a few: lack of modern and efficient technology, slackening productivity, stagnation, corruption and unbalanced industrial development. After the strong economic blow in 1989-90, to help the economy recover from this slowdown, India embarked on the path of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation, under the initiative of the present Prima Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh. Since then, the Indian economy has been showing a steady increase in its GDP. And, today, the country is viewed as an important emerging economy of the future world.
Education is destroying Kerala! In Lawrence Gable’s article, “Kerala Turns to a Machine,” the promise of free education is slowly demolishing its coconut industry. For years, India’s caste system has been a dominant force in its society, but it is being broken down in the world’s coconut capital: Kerala. This system controls the lives of Indians, controlling who they are to associate with, the quality of their lives, and whether or not they receive the coveted privilege of education. However, in the past few years, the Indian government has offered education without charge to people of the lower castes, opening doors to opportunities for the minimum wage coconut pickers of Kerala. Instead of laboring in coconut farms, schooling would provide the laborers who climb the sky-high with a better life. This may seem like a positive subject, the sudden departures of coconut pickers does not bode well with the harvests, with each harvest bringing even less of the fruits every time. Although education can help some communities thrive, in some cases it can be determined to culture and economy.
Vasco da Gama landed at Calicut, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope in 1498. This marked the beginning of
India is a nation that is on the move towards becoming one of the leaders in the global economy. While the country still has a long way to go, it is making significant strides towards competition with nations such as the United States and England. Indian leaders have been moving towards "a five-point agenda that includes improving the investment climate; developing a comprehensive WTO strategy; reforming agriculture, food processing, and small-scale industry; eliminating red tape; and instituting better corporate governance" (Cateora & Graham p. 56, 2007). These steps are geared to begin India's transformation from a third world nation into a global economic leader. The current marketing environment in India is in transition, with both similarities and differences in comparison to the marketing environment in the US.
Indian population has a mixture of culture, variety of languages and difference in resources. The difference in occupational structure, literacy level, health status and other socio-economic factors among the states leads to the
The condition of unemployment in India has seen a major increase in the past 10 years both in the urban as well as rural lands (Shubhi). The country has been unable to produce jobs for each of its citizens due to lack of production houses within the country. However, there has been a consistent growth in the production houses and factory setups, but it has been able to keep up pace with the significantly increasing population level (Jain and Majhi). Here with the illegal immigration of Bangladeshi’s and their search for jobs has greatly been affected the employment sector of India, as the country has limited resources which can only be enough for its residents. With the problem of unemployment the unavoidable scenario of poverty
There are many daily wage workers in Birbhum district, West Bengal, who have migrated with their children, and even some of them have been staying there from more than two-three generations. Many children of these labourers are deprived of their basic education. Sometimes even if they want to continue their education in a newly inhabited place but it becomes very difficult for them due to various reasons. (Ekka & Roy, 2013)
India, the population of which is estimated to be 1.27 billion also ranks 2nd in largest population and 33 in population density. The social problems in India in the new