...Into to Sociology Who Am I Part II Due: 9/14/14 Religions of India Religion just might be the biggest social institution I can think of in the world. There is no part of the world where religion doesn’t exist. The biggest thing religion and India have in common is the freedom and diversity. All of India’s people have the right to religious freedom and can practice and worship any religion they please, but religion plays a central role in Indian daily life through its temple ceremonies, festivals, pilgrimages, family religious traditions. Diversity of religion is what I would like to focus on as I look deeper into the foreign country of India. Just like the United States, India also shares freedom of religion. India is diverse in its own since when it comes to religious beliefs. India is the birthplace of four of the world’s major religions; namely Hinduism Buddhism Jainism and Sikhism. According to a 2001 census, out of 1028 million population, little over 827 million (80.5%) have returned themselves as followers of Hindu religion, 138 million (13.4%) as Muslims or the followers of Islam, 24 million (2.3%) as Christians, 19 million (1.9%) as Sikh, 8 million (0.80%) as Buddhists and 4 million (0.4%) are Jain. In addition, over 6 million have reported professing other religions and faiths including tribal religions, different from six main religions (Religion, Census of India 2001, censusindia.gov.). With India being the second largest nation population wise, coming in second...
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...Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions US vs. India by Edward A. Molnar January 19, 2013 Abstract This article acknowledges the six dimensions of Hofstede’s theory of cultural dimensions, and defines five of them for a comparison between the United States and India. This article shows for the most part, the definitions of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are correct, but the article did identify some ambiguities while making the comparisons. Finally, future areas of possible research were identified that would assist in the removal of the ambiguities. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions US vs. India Geert Hofstede’s theory of cultural dimensions was a result of an analysis of a world-wide survey of employee values by IBM in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This theory describes the effects of a society’s culture on the values of that culture’s members and how those values relate to behavior. This is accomplished by using a structure resulting from factor analysis (Hofstede, 2011). This theory has been used as an example for several fields, particularly in cross-cultural psychology (Hofstede, 2011). Geert Hofstede’s original cultural dimensions theory had four dimensions from which cultural values could be analyzed. These four dimensions were: (a) individualism versus collectivism (IDV); (b) uncertainty avoidance (UAI); (c) power distance (PDI); (d) masculinity versus femininity (MAS). While Hofstede was performing research in Hong Kong he added the fifth dimension, long-term...
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... Golapbag, Burdwan, Pin - 713104, West Bengal, India. Content Page No. 1. Preface 2. Acknowledgement I-II III 3. Abbreviations IV-VI 4. Chapter - 1 : Introduction 1-10 5.Chapter - 2 : Indo-U.S. Relations in the Cold War Period 11-41 6.Chapter - 3 : Indo-US Diplomatic Ties in the Post- Cold War Period 42-79 7.Chapter - 4 : Indo-U.S. Economic, Technological and Scientific Co-operation 80-131 8.Chapter - 5 : 9/11 Incident: US Attitude towards Terrorism Vis-à-vis India and Pakistan 132-169 9.Chapter - 6 : India’s Nuclear Links with the USA 170-204 10. Chapter - 7 : Conclusion 205-214 11. Select Bibliography 215-237 Preface Indo-U.S. relations constitute important and influential relations in this world politics. It influences not only the U.S.-Pakistani and the Sino-Indian relations to a great extent; ‘Indo-U.S. relations in the post-Cold War period (1992-2006)’ has been the title of the present dissertation. Beginning against the back ground of the U.S.-Pakistani Arms Assistance Agreement of 1954, the Indo-U.S. relations had witnessed many ups and down in the following years. For example, there had been flourishes in Indo-U.S. relations in the early years of 1960s under the Kennedy Administration. This ascent in relations continued until the mid 1960, when the U.S. changed its South Asia policy and adopted a balanced relationship vis-à-vis India and Pakistan in the subsequent years until 1970...
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...Being the largest democratic countries in the world, both United States and India are based on federalism in their political structure. US became a Federal Republic State by promulgating its constitution in the year1789; whereas India became a Socialist, Sovereign, Secular, Democratic Republic by formally launching its constitution only in the year 1950.Thereby both countries had attained dominion status in which a number of smaller states had got affiliated forming a union with a strong central government that came to be called as Federal Government in the US and Central Government in India. Thus both states became Federal Republics. While framing the Indian constitution, its drafting committee headed by Dr.Ambedkar, had borrowed many salient features from various constitutions in the world including US but adopted them in the Indian context. Hence, both U.S and India, despite being federal in structure have many similarities and differences between them. Similarities between US and India:- 1) Written constitution:- Both US and India have a written constitution based on which the federal political structure has been set up and both federal governments are functioning.Both constitutions have provisions for amending the constitution to meet the growing socio, political and economic needs and demands of their respective countries. 2) Bill of Rights and Fundamental Rights:- The US constitution has ensured the fundamental rights of its citizens like right...
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...report is an endeavor in this direction capturing the market access barriers faced by Indian exporters in its major trading partners and other select countries, 24 in all. Major trading partners: Exports: Major Export trading partners through which India trading are UAE 12.87%, US 12.59%, China 5.59% . The principal commodities of export include petroleum products, oil meal, gem and jewellery, electronic goods, cotton yarn/readymade garments, cotton, machinery & instruments, primary/semi-finished iron & steel, transport equipment, marine products, drugs/pharmaceuticals, inorganic/organic/ agro chemicals, dyes/intermediates etc. Imports: Major Import trading partners through which India trading are China 10.94%, US 7.16%, Saudi Arabia 5.36%, UAE 5.18%, Australia 5.02%, Germany 4.86%, Singapore 4.02% (2009). The major commodities imported from this region are coal/coke/briquettes, gold, vegetable oils, electronic goods, organic chemicals, machinery except electrical machinery, professional instruments, wood and wood products, non-ferrous metals, metalifers ores and metal scrap, raw wool etc.Trade Promotion Activities Trade relations between India and China: In the last decade, bilateral trade between India and China has grown by 20 times. According to statistics of Chinese Customs, the bilateral trade volume in 2010 reached USD 61.8 billion, with an...
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...this sunshine industry of India grew from 150 million US Dollars to 50 billion US Dollars between 1990-1991 and 2006-2007. The growth of the IT industry has been very high in the last few years. The size of the Information Technology industry of India was 5.7 billion US Dollars in 1999-2000. After the turn of the century the industry experienced exponential growth to reach the 50 billion mark by 2006-2007. The projections about the size of India's IT industry present a very optimistic picture. The industry is expected to grow to double its current size by the year 2012. India's IT industry is expected to grow at an annual average rate of 18% in the next five years. The industry is also expected to cross the 100 billion US Dollar mark by 2011. One of the major areas of growth for the IT industry of India is by tapping the potential in the domestic market. The IT industry of India is largely dependant on the export market. Penetrating more into the domestic market would create further opportunities of growth for the IT industry. POLICES N REGULATION The projections about the size of India's IT industry present a very optimistic picture. The industry is expected to grow to double its current size by the year 2012. India's IT industry is expected to grow at an annual average rate of 18% in the next five years. The industry is also expected to cross the 100 billion US Dollar mark by 2011. One of the major areas of growth for the IT industry of India is by tapping the potential...
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...Intellectual Property Rights 2014 1.Intellectual property rights: US set to punish India The Indian embassy in Washington DC too scheduled a briefing by its economic and commerce wings soon after the expected US action. TNN | Feb 10, 2014, 10.28PM IST WASHINGTON: It's not looking good between New Delhi and Washington. Tensions over the Khobragade episode are yet to fully dissipate, but the two sides are locking horns again over intellectual property rights. The Obama administration is scheduled to announce unspecified ''trade enforcement action'' against India on Monday evening (Tuesday am IST) Washington time. United States trade representative (USTR) Michael Froman and general counsel Timothy Reif will hold a news conference to announce action related to India, the USTR said earlier in the day in a head's up to journalists. The Indian embassy in Washington DC too scheduled a briefing by its economic and commerce wings soon after the expected US action. All this comes ahead of a re-scheduled visit to New Delhi of US energy secretary Ernesto Munoz, which was postponed from January because of the Khobragade row. 2.Hurdles in business growth forcing entrepreneurs to mass exodus Krithika Krishnamurthy, ET Bureau Mar 28, 2014, 04.30AM IST * (Starting up in India is easy…) Within the next six months, Bangalorebased technology entrepreneur Jay Krishnan will be heading east in search of a better place to locate his fast-growing business...
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...GOODS WHY INDIA INDIA COMPETITIVENESS AND COMPARISON WITH THE WORLD MARKETS POLICY TRENDS AND PLAYERS MARKET OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTMENT ANNEX: APEX CONTACTS AGENCIES 3 7 9 12 32 38 A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers for IBEF Executive summary The Indian FMCG sector is the fourth largest sector in the economy with a total market size in excess of US$ 13.1 billion. It has a strong MNC presence and is characterised by a wellestablished distribution network, intense competition between the organised and unorganised segments and low operational cost. Availability of key raw materials, cheaper labour costs and presence across the entire value chain gives India a competitive advantage. The FMCG market is set to treble from US$ 11.6 billion in 2003 to US$ 33.4 billion in 2015. Penetration level as well as per capita consumption in most product categories like jams, toothpaste, skin care, hair wash etc in India is low indicating the untapped market potential. Burgeoning Indian population, particularly the middle class and the rural segments, presents an opportunity to makers of branded products to convert consumers to branded products. Growth is also likely to come from consumer 'upgrading' in the matured product categories. With 200 million people expected to shift to processed and packaged food by 2010, India needs around US$ 28 billion of investment in the food-processing industry. FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS PAGE 3 WHY INDIA Large domestic market India is one of...
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...Section B: Welspun India Industry Analysis – Textile Industry on Global Scale The global apparel and fashion trade is expected to grow to USD1 trillion by 2020. However with growth slowing down in developed markets, the dynamics of the global fashion market are expected to change dramatically. Emerging economies will fuel most of the growth in the fashion market. Brazil, Russian, India & China (BRIC) along with few other South-East Asian countries are seen as the major growth drivers. In addition to this, global apparel markets in the recent past have shown a paradigm shift, moving towards increased product differentiation, and catering to a diverse, aware, and demanding customer base. Retailers have thus gravitated toward demographic shifts, societal influences, economic influence, and environmental concerns. With growth in developed economics cooling, retailers are facing pressure due to restricted consumer spending. Under such conditions the global apparel value chain has shown a distinct shift both at the front- and supply-end. Recent Global Trends in Textile Sector * Increase in textiles and clothing global trade from US$ 355 billion in 2000 to US$ 602 billion in 2010 * Expected to reach US$ 1 trillion by 2020, CAGR of 5% pa. * China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia are leading suppliers and further expanding their capacities. * Established markets (North America, Western Europe) continue to show traction * Emerging markets...
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...BPO in India – an overview Contents I. Introduction II. What is BPO? • Types of BPO • Key services in various sectors III. Indian BPO Market IV. Market Segments and Trends • Banking sector • Insurance • Healthcare • Media/Publishing • Offshore Software Development • Network Outsourcing Services • HR Outsourcing V. Popular destinations VI. Employment opportunities VII. Key players in the market a. Indian companies b. MNCs VIII. Global competition IX. Future/outlook I. Introduction: Late 90’s has opened a new chapter in Information Technology (IT) sector in India – Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), one of the fastest growing segments of the Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) industry. Cost conscious companies in the world to gain cost savings has set up their back office operations in India. The BPO segment, which was virtually non-existent till a few years ago, has risen to be a US $2 billion industry and IDC expects it to grow at a CAGR of 54 per cent till 2006 to reach US $12 billion. A major portion of the revenues today come from customer care and back office processing services, according to IDC’s report. II. What is BPO? BPO is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain their position in the...
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...globalization in IndiaMultilateral agreements in trade, taking on such new agendas as environmental and social conditions. New multilateral agreements for services ,Intellectual properties, communications, and more binding on national governments than any previous agreements. Market economic policies spreading around the world, with greater privatization and liberalization than in earlier decades. Growing global markets in services. People can now execute trade services globally -- from medical advice to software writing to data processing , that could never really be traded before. Open Market policy -advantages Growing Indian Economy GDP – USD 1.36 trillion GDP growth rate – 9% Services contribution – 60-65% Balance of Trade – Negative balance should increase with surging imports versus exports Investment goal – USD 370 billion GDP – USD 1.16 trillion GDP growth rate – 9.5% Services contribution – 60% Balance of Trade – Negative balance should increase with surging imports versus exports Investment goal – USD 305 billion GDP – USD 590 billion GDP growth rate – 9% Services contribution – 54% Balance of Trade – USD (-)46.2 billion Investment goal – USD 250 billion 2010 2008 2006 105 105 135 145 167 103 125 204 231 287 682 191 237 398 453 0 200 400 600 800 1.000 1.200 1999-00 2002-03 2005-06 2006-07 2010* USD Billion Agriculture Industry Services Growing GDP Source: India Brand Equity Foundation...
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...INDUSTRY The gems and jewellery industry occupies an important position in the Indian economy. It is a leading foreign exchange earner, as well as one of the fastest growing industries in the country. The two major segments of the sector in India are gold jewellery and diamonds. Gold jewellery forms around 80 per cent of the Indian jewellery market, with the balance comprising fabricated studded jewellery that includes diamond and gemstone studded jewellery. Besides, India is world's largest cutting and polishing Industry for diamonds, well supported by government policies and the banking sector with around 50 banks providing nearly $3 billion of credit to the Indian diamond industry. A predominant portion of the gold jewellery manufactured in India is consumed in the domestic market. However, a major portion of the rough, uncut diamonds processed in India is exported, either in the form of polished diamonds or finished diamond jewellery. The largest consumer of gold worldwide, India is also the leading diamond cutting nation. Gold and precious gems have played a pivotal role in the Indian social fabric and economy. Precious gems and jewellery are a part and parcel of Indian traditions and customs. Gold has traditionally been valued in India as a savings-andinvestment vehicle and even today, continues to be the second most popular instrument after bank deposits. Gems and jewellery is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Indian economy with an annual growth rate of approximately...
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...Describe the current sorry age. Adi, of course, will paint the scene And tell us why the times are lean." Mr. Nadir Godrej Executive summary The Indian FMCG sector is the fourth largest sector in the economy with a total market size in excess of US$ 13.1 billion. It has a strong MNC presence and is characterized by a well-established distribution network, intense competition between the organized and unorganized segments and low operational cost. Availability of key raw materials, cheaper labor costs and presence across the entire value chain gives India a competitive advantage. The FMCG market is set to treble from US$ 11.6 billion in 2003 to US$ 33.4 billion in 2015. Penetration level as well as per capita consumption in most product categories like jams, toothpaste, skin care, hair wash etc. Burgeoning Indian population, particularly the middle class and the rural segments, presents an opportunity to makers of branded products to convert consumers to branded products. Growth is also likely to come from consumer 'upgrading' in the matured product categories. With 200 million people expected to shift to processed and packaged food by 2012, India needs around US$ 28 billion of investment in the food-processing industry....
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...In India, 70% of DTH Connections are from Rural and Small Towns Page 1 of 8 • • Search Home » india • • • • • • • • • Startups Funding Entrepreneurship Prod Strategy Mobile Technology Market Research Office 2010 ReviewNew Jobs Sep 7, 2009 | sinha In India, 70% of DTH Connections are from Rural and Small Towns Connected with Telenor Creativity, openess & development See how Telenor connects your world www.Telenor.com/India Tata Sky+ Special Offer Record 130 Hours of Live TV & Watch Later at Your Convenience www.tataskydth.in Introducing Videocon d2h World's 1st satellite DVD which can receive DTH service. Check Now! www.d2h.com Iam Hotel School Global Degree in Hospitality Management in Kolkata & Goa www.iam.ac.in Defying logic, 70% of DTH connections in India are from rural and small towns (population under a million), as per a report by a marketing research firm (Francis Kanoi). Dish TV and DD’s Direct Plus DTH service are the market leaders in Rural India, while Tata Sky, Dish TV and Sun Direct DTH services are the preferred brands in top metros. The report does questions hypothesis over DTH subscribers’ TG and premium channels who are charging higher spot-rates owing to the stated subscriber base. Of course, part of this lopsidedness arises from the fact that penetration of cable is high in Urban India, and rural is still an unserved market. • Out of 13.2 million DTH subscribers, over seven million DTH subscribers are from rural markets alone...
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...History of Indian economy Economic history of India begins with the Indus Valley civilization. The Indus civilization's economy appears to have depended significantly on trade, which was facilitated by advances in transport. The political unity and military security allowed for a common economic system and enhanced trade and commerce, with increased agricultural productivity. During this1500 period, India is estimated to have had the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world between the 1st and 17th centuries AD, controlling between one third and one fourth of the world's wealth . India has followed central planning for most of its independent history, which have included extensive public ownership, regulation, red tape, and trade barriers. After the 1991 economic crisis, the central government launched economic liberalization. India has turned towards a more capitalist system and has emerged as one of the fastest growing large economies of the world. CURRENT INDIAN ECONOMY: The Indian economy has continuously recorded high growth rates and has become an attractive destination for investments. A. Indian economy is expected to grow at around 7.5 per cent B. The overall growth of gross domestic product (GDP) at factor cost at constant prices was 8.5 per cent in 2010-11 representing an increase from the revised growth of 8 per cent during 2009-10. C. Growth in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) was 4.1 per cent during August 2011...
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