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I was just wondering what you all thought the impact (positive and negative) of globalisation has had on India.

I was just pondering this because India is the worlds biggest democracy, figured it'd be the most obvious example of globalisation affecting a country.

I was just wondering what you all thought the impact (positive and negative) of globalisation has had on India.

I was just pondering this because India is the worlds biggest democracy, figured it'd be the most obvious example of globalisation affecting a country.

Standards of living has increased in India.

There are building a paved road system in many places :eek:

It will only last a couple years. Then they will have to compete with China. A coworker returned from a visit and he said he was shocked to hear that English language was now manditory!

It really means a great screw over for the American workers.

One of example of job exportation creating jobs however. One company sent 100 development jobs to India and created 3 here.

I was more thinking along the lines of income inequality, trade (okay you answered that one :P), foreign aid, investment and the environment (i think this one has become worse due to globalisation, but whatever).

I am of Indian heritage and was just curious as to what you all thought about it... (okay okay, so it wasn't just because India was the biggest democracy in the world :P )

I was more thinking along the lines of income inequality, trade (okay you answered that one :P), foreign aid, investment and the environment (i think this one has become worse due to globalisation, but whatever).

I am of Indian heritage and was just curious as to what you all thought about it... (okay okay, so it wasn't just because India was the biggest democracy in the world :P )

Environmentally they are picking up.

When I was there; 2 stroke engines were the norm. I tried to do a walk in Bangalore and got woosy from the exhast fumes.

They is a major effort to kill of the 2 storkers.....

Environmentally they are picking up.

When I was there; 2 stroke engines were the norm. I tried to do a walk in Bangalore and got woosy from the exhast fumes.

They is a major effort to kill of the 2 storkers.....

Are they trying to get people to stop using kerosene as fuel also?

When did you go last? I went around 4 years ago or so, some guy over there was telling me that the petrol stations mixed kerosine in with the petrol because it was cheaper :|.

Half the people I work with are from India. They like it here plenty. They are all in favor of globalisation.Though I must say, they are all part of the Bramen (sp?) class.

The biggest problem in their country is the class system. Their idea of democracy is a joke.

I personally don't know enough on the subject to make any worth while observations but I thought you might be interested in these articles.

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1848253&from=rss
http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/12/16/2319240.shtml?tid=192&tid=156&tid=103&tid=6

The newsforge article gets into a lot of techie topics, so if you're not interested in IT then you may want to just skim that one but I thought the levels of debates and skills demonstrated were impressive.

From what I've heard, it seems globalization has been harmful to India, although that's to be expected.

Since India has been experiencing growth in many "non-heavy industry" areas of the economy it has been less damaging to their enviornment. This allows for a dramatic increase in living conditions without sacraficing long-term sustainability (think China).

However it is unclear how many of their current "monopolies" on cheap labor and technical expertise will be long term investments. The tech field will probably be fine, but India is also heavily investing in trying to compete with China in the the Textiles area and others.

In addition, current investment in India's infrustructure is similar to their areas of speciality; this is to say that outside of their regions with technical experts, India very much represents an undeveloped nation. One hopes that India will grow more evenly through government intervention; otherwise it is likely that it will see increased crowding in already very busy cities.