Economic Environment in India

An environment always affects a man and his destiny. In the book "Of Mice and Men" John Steinbeck greatly shows that. The relationship between man and his environment is reflected by three different, yet very similar types of conflicts. Those three conflicts are :- man vs. man, man vs. society and, man vs. self.

Environment is the surroundings and influences upon things including humans. These are many things happening individually or all at once. E.g. Light, temperature, water and interactions (other living things). Looking further, it has become popular to find that after the Sun, Moon and Stars the largest influence is us (human beings).

As we all know, Canada is a democracy with parliamentary government; Canada has tenth largest economy in the world and Canada is a member of OECD and the G-8; nowadays, Canadians have a satisfying income, a good education and most of whom dominated middle class or higher; Canada is the leading nation in science and technology especially the internet and digital communication. India is a democracy government and the political environment is influenced by government’s policies, politician interest and so on, which means the business environment is affected by the political factors; the economy in India is exceedingly stable due to the industrial reform policies; the social factors of India comprise of a multitude of social trends and changes such as values, languages, belief, demographic features and so on; even though India posses one of biggest IT sectors in the world, most of technology sectors in India is far behind other powerful nations.

South Asia is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, where despite a slow growth, agriculture remains the backbone of rural economy as it employs one half to over 90 percent of the labor force. Both extensive and intensive policy measures for agriculture

The two authors argue the main issue that India is continuing to face are due to the lack of concern for citizens especially for the poor citizens and women. Dreze and Sen proceed into their work as they continue to portray the way in which the citizens of India were being oppressed by the new economic and political policies. One of the issues Dreze and Sen use as an example of how India rapid economic growth is problematic is the countries lack to foster participation for economic growth. The lack of inclusion in economic growth leads to a wealth disparity between the citizens. The authors continue on depicting several other issues another one being the lack of enhancement to the standard of living despite generating economic growth from the use of public goods. The standards of living are a huge issue with India as it signals there is a large disparity within wealth. Dreze and Sen continue to document the lack of social and living standards especially in the case of education, medical care, and physical services like clean water, electricity, drainage, and sanitation. The authors proceed to make note how without a development of a social structure within India high economic growth can harm the citizens and ultimately neglect civil, political, and social rights. Dreze and Sen then

on agriculture, stresses on food self-sufficiency and employment to the rural people as the top priorities. Nevertheless, this food self-sufficiency is under strong constraints and handicaps, particularly from the massive rural population growth which consequently leading to illiteracy, ignorance, and backwardness. Besides, alarming also leading to land under cultivation is not only diminishing but also gets further fragmented, ecology degraded, infrastructural facilities do not match with the growth of rural population. This problem has been aggravated mainly by demographic pressure which leads to a large number of very small fields of the country and poor infrastructure facilities like water, electricity, transport, educational institutions, communication, health, warehousing etc. Unless these problems are strategically attended and pragmatic efforts are initiated, India, can’t flourish its rural areas and communities. Keeping these in view, the present paper tries to identify the impediments in implementing rural development programmes and pragmatic efforts to overcome them for ensuring equitable and sustainable development in rural

| This field studies the interaction between human beings and their environment. The term environment encompasses one's social setting, as well as his natural and artificial environments. It focuses on analyzing how physical environments affect an individual's psychology.

India is the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people which located in South Asia. India is the world’s seventh-largest economy based on nominal GDP and is the third-largest purchasing power parity. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing economies country and began to implement export-oriented foreign trade policy. However, before the reform due to the long-time of the implementation of Inward-looking import economic development strategy, the domestic market is highly protected in India which lead to the slow development of India 's import and export trade and stay in the trade deficit situation for a long time. As well as the contribution of foreign trade to GDP is low, ultimately affect the Indian economy development speed. Now, it is one of the most attractive country of the BRIC markets, which also includes Brazil, China and Russia. Sino-India trade relationship began in 1951 and start rapid growth in the 90s, now India has become the biggest trading partner of China in the area of South Asia.

You often hear the word environment, but do you stop to think what it really means, what it contains, and how it affects you? The actual definition of environment is the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded (Merriam-Webster dictionary). Your environment greatly impacts the way you are as a human being. Each and every one of your life experiences are influenced by your environment. Your environment determines if or how your potential to develop is reached. Family, friends, home, school, etc. are all components of your environment. By reading further, you will witness these factors that affect your personal growth and development being explored and discussed.

India was called a ‘Sparrow of Gold’ in the past. Indians were prosperous. Many outsiders attacked and looted it. Some of them went back while the remaining settled here. Britishers came here and looted it. They spread their colonies all over India. They ruled over India. At that time the condition of Indian economy and society was very worse. When India got freedom from Britishers in 1947 it tried to develop. The main focus of Indian policies makers was on the eradication of poverty. Five years plan was made for the purpose of eradication of poverty. But still there are so many problems in the elimination of poverty.

India is a developing country. The factors hindering development of the country are many. Some of them can be attributed to the low per capita income and larger chunk of the population living under the poverty line. India is a country with poor people but with rich natural resources. It can be said that the country’s potential is either the human resource or the natural resources are not adequately utilized to the maximum extent and that resulted in low per capita income. India is an agrarian economy. The economy is marred with unemployment and under employment. Since the economy is basically agrarian, disguised unemployment is also rampant among the farmer community.

The features of economic environment have direct relationship with economic activities .Income and wealth is the components of the economic environment.

It is the past which shapes what we become in the present. Most of what we do and follow today has been decided in the past which is why we have to understand who we were to become who we have to be. India is one of the few civilizations which has been in existence for more than 5000 years. India is a homogenous culture and it has such strong roots that we have been able to absorb any outside intervention with ease. Be it the Muslim Kings or the Mughals, we have integrated everyone into our culture. “Everybody looks different and dresses differently.

SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market oriented than a country's typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside a special economic zone.

India’s Constitution adopted in 1950 had established parliamentary form of democracy and India has been a republic with universal adult suffrage, which has contributed to significant stability of political system. It is a now a federation with 28 States and seven Union territories. While the largest State (Uttar Pradesh) has a population of 166 million the smallest State (Sikkim) has a population of only 0.54 million. India is a poor country where a large section of the population cannot afford all these. The matter is made worse due to the fact that our economy does not provide adequate employment opportunities so that poor people can get jobs and earn income. Hence eradication of poverty and unemployment is a major challenge before the economy.