India, a superpower in the making?
11/27/2005 11:16:00 AM, posted by anandHere is an article in Yale Global Online that paints a not so rosy picture of the supposedly economic superpower in the making. Here is an excerpt from the article:
What about the hordes of Indian software engineers, call-center operators, and back-room programmers supposedly hollowing out white-collar jobs in rich countries? The total number of workers in all possible forms of IT-related jobs in India comes to less than a million workers  one-quarter of one percent of the Indian labor force. For all its Nobel Prizes and brilliant scholars and professionals, India is the largest single-country contributor to the pool of illiterate people in the world. Lifting them out of poverty and dead-end menial jobs will remain a Herculean task for decades to come.
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