Can India catch up? Can Australia do better? [Slide show]

 

 

 

 

 

Cutting edge technology: whenever we need a particular kind of hardware that either does not exist or is difficult to find, we turn to India, and an obscure factory in Indore or a firm in Chandigarh delivers it [Source]

 

 

My notes on India in no order

Retail could open to foreign markets.

Who Do Indians Bribe Most?

Pollution in India – one of the world' highest. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-breathes-the-most-toxic-air-scrapes-the-bottom-among-nations-study/904926/0

Profits declining in India.

As Indian companies grow in the U.S., outsourcing comes home

Some books on India

India: The Emerging Giant by Arvind Panagariya

Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century by Nandan Nilekani (link to my book review) 

General points about India

Study says India most depressed country

Does no one remember the Indian contribution to Technology?

Jugaad

India's score on various indices

India’s Bureaucracy a ‘Nightmare’ (the worst in Asia – a study)

Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) of the World Economic Forum (WEF) India comes in at 56.

Human Development index score: http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/India/Rising-power-India-ranks-134-in-human-development-index/Article1-764014.aspx

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