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Chapter 5

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Booming India

India is a poor country, but due to globalization, its economy is growing rapidly.

Learning objectives:

• characteristics of the dual economy
  
• the changes to India’s economy and their effects
  
• the effects of globalization on India
  
• ways of measuring development
  
• advantages and disadvantages of Indian migration

Everything you know about Economy:

Shift in economic focus and distribution of the workforce.

Primary sector → Secondary sector → Tertiary sector.

Student A: Choose two pictures and describe the reasons why the child is sad in those pictures. Explain which child is the saddest.

Student B: Explain which child's sadness will last the longest.

• Quick economic growth.
• GDP is low
• Big social inequality and regional inequality, in comparison of urban and rural areas

Emerging countries

What is inequality? Give an example of inequality:

India's GDP is still low; what is GDP?

What is the meaning of self-sufficient farming?

What are special economic zones again?

Read G250 Core and periphery and use Figure 16.

The production of jeans takes place in how many countries according to Figure 16?

1. 5
2. 7
3. 3
4. 6

Which of these countries in the production of jeans, provides material from the primary sector?

1. Germany
2. Kazachstan
3. Poland
4. China

Educated guess, what is the meaning of the term brain drain?

India belongs to which part of the world system?

1. Centre
2. Semi-periphery
3. periphery
4. none of the aboven

List three reasons why a special economic zone is attractive for foreign companies.

Globalization keeps on going.

How is it that countries can increasingly exchange information, trade, and people around the world?

Technology has improved.

Transportation has improved.

Infrastructure has improved.

Read indian migrants and B159 Push- en pullfactoren.

Describe two reasons causing the Indian braindrain:

Read Globalization and look at Figure 15. Read G253 Economic globalization.

What is globalization?

Read Globalization and look at Figure 15. Read G253 Economic globalization.

Give examples of two ways you are involved in globalization.

What is not one of the three reasons the Indian IT sector has grown so fast?

1. India is a low-wage country.
2. India has a lot of workers who are educated and highly skilled.
3. The time difference with western countries is an advantage.
4. The computer systems are generally bigger then anywhere else

Read Globalization and look at Figure 15. Read G253 Economic globalization.

What is the connection between the fast-growing IT sector and globalization?