Zusammenfassung der Ressource
India
- overveiw
- population 1.25 billion
- life expectancy 66 years
- economy $4000 GDP per capita
- 1.2% growth rate
- poverty level 38% mostly in rural areas
- growing middle class
- agriculture is their
main industry
- became independent
in 1947, was a
command economy
- economic growth limited to 1.8% a year
- changing economy
- agriculture
- green revolution, 1960's
- "miracle rice"
could increase
rice yields 5
fold
- India had a major food
shortage and this provided
more food and cash crops
- food imports have risen from
$1,300 in 2004 to $1.7 billion in
2013 due to soil degrading
fertilizers
- fertilizers break down soil causing it to break up and fall into
rivers (Ganges action plan) it also makes it unsuitable for
growing crops and more susceptible to flooding
- not everyone
can afford these
new machines
and fertilizers
- 2/3rds of the population work in agriculture
- cash crops
- McCaine and McDonalds
- 2,000 acres of potato fields in Gujarat
- 400 farmers under contract with McCaine
- average holding is 1.3 hectares
- drip irrigation saves water
- tomatoes for pepsi
- sent work to Punjab
- hampered with tight regulations
- most states have now eased the
restrictions to increase business
- agribusiness
accounts for
$220 billion,
small fraction
of
agricultural
output
- cities and services
- services sector contributes to 41% GDP
- Bangalore is a major IT centre
- annual software industry growth exceeded 50%
- growth from $4 billion 1999-2000 to $6.3 billion 2000-01
- Mumbai big financial hub
- 23 stock exchanges
- 9,000 listed companies
- BT call centres and billing service
- IT sector
- 50% annual
growth since
1991
- 2.2 million jobs by 2008
- SEZ
- Maharastra
had the
greatest
number of
SEZ's approved
(88% of 24)
- low tax rates and free trade
- India could be loosing out on money
- sustainability
- Bhopal
- gas in form of cyanide leaked into shanty town
- American owned union
carbide pesticide plant 3 miles
from capital of Bhopal in
Madhga Pradesh
- 20,000 died
- 800,000 affected
- children of Bhopal 10 times
more likely to suffer birth
defects than anywhere else in
India
- not enough being done to help victims
- left the area toxic
and barrn, unsafe
drinking water
- 120,000 still suffer chronic illness such as emphysema and cancer
- October 2004, India supreme court approve
$350 million compensation plan to over
570,000 victims
- 1989 Union Carbide paid
India £470 million but this was
deemed woefully inadequet
- soil erosion from chemical fertilizers
- Ganges water pollution
- 10% of worlds population live on the Ganges
- uses
- naviagton
- religious practices
- irrigation
- industrial and domestic use
- industry extract water
then put it back into the
river
- irrigations artificial
fertilizers run into the
river
- bathing and body burning for religious practices
- frakah dam 1975
- cuts off Bangladesh's water supply
- chemical
contamination
affects 195,000
habitations in
the country
- excess
iron in
water
samples
- only 1/3rd
of the waste
that goes
into the
Ganges is
treated
- Rural areas
- deforestation to provide fuel for cooking food
- deforestation means more soil erosion
- ddy ad contaminated water for irrigation
- biogas generators
- expensive only wealthy rural farmers may buy them and the poor will
spend more time gathering cow dung to sell to the wealthy
- rural area issues
- more than 70% of people live in villages
- 80% of poor people live in rural areas
- caste system
- debt if they can't afford new farming devices
- work is in the cities
- mumbai
- inequality
- Dharavi
- immense poverty, illegal settlement
- unsanitary, 1 toilet between 10,000 in some places
- costs Indian Government $50 billion a year in
premature deaths and hygiene related disease
- low paid service jobs
- informal sector
- decline in manufacturing
- Dharavi recycling plant
- pot making
- little education access
- recycling units burn illegal material like copper wire,
electronic waste and chemical dyes
- from just 2013 the average
suspended respiratory
particle measurement
doubled from 102 ug/m3 to
207 ug/m3 in 2014
- $40 billion world bank loan
- 9000 new toilets in 400 locations
- bottom up development
- family and community live together
- don't want to
leave for tower
blocks
- many couldn't afford!
- land worth $10 billion
- growing middle class
- gated private propeties
- worlds most expensive house
- more malls
- English speaking graduates
- graduate level jobs
- more disposable income
- rely on
cars
- 10 Km journey takes
30 minuets
- 2013 nitrogen dioxide levels 2x the safe level for human health
- for every square
foot of housing
built for the poor,
30% more is
allowed for
commercial
development