Impact on Indian Economy

India’s economy is booming! With large decreases in poverty, increases in literacy and GDP, India is continuing to make its way out of the third world and into the first. India is predicted to surpass even China in growth by 2050. A competitive private capital market has instilled Indians with a low cost high quality mentality and has resulted in some of the highest return rates for any country. India has been averaging 6% growth compared to China’s 9.5% with half the investments. India capital efficiency is one of its strongest economic benefits.

The Indian economy following the 1991 crisis swiftly moved away from central planning economy towards market-based economy with the government having less intervention and control. As a result, companies were operating in what is called emerging

India’s economy is the fourth largest GDP in terms of purchasing power parity (Gupta and Gupta, 2008:68).

Human behavior is sensitive to and strongly influenced by its environment. When the economy starts recession, manufactures would shrink the volume of production, investor will invest less and people will spend less money on new products, and as the result, which would causes the economy become worse. And on the other hand, good economy leads people to buy more.

Today the United States Americans more than ever; there is a constant fear of an awaiting recession due to the economy. The recession in the later 2000’s has been known as the greatest economic decline since the Great Depression. The United States of America, the banks and businesses are not able to succeed and are failing due to the market. Many people across America cannot afford their homes or bills due to the unemployment rate that seems to keep increasing. Many people blame this on the higher oil or gas prices, and the wars that the United States acts on. The recession has overall declined our economic activity in business profits, employment, and investment. This is all due to our falling market, and the rise of prices that so many Americans cannot afford.

India’s economy is one that appears to be on the brink of a major recession. Their central bank has made bad choices over the last number of years. This has lead to a low growth within the country and a high inflation rate. They changed their political leadership to someone who was more open to change and reform, but this has not come about. India reformed its tax system, which they believed would be the key to success in the country. This in fact caused the opposite. The economy slowed down sharply. They banned the sale of cows in India due to religions reason and this stopped the growth of agriculture as this was a huge export for the country. India has about 12 million new young people enter its job market each year and finding jobs for this vast quality of people is a hinderance for the country and yet another driving factor for lower growth. India expects the initial impact of their tax reform to be over and now they will see a stabilization of their economy. It is believed their economy will now grow in small increments due to this stabilization.

Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States of America has experienced many recession. The most recent of these recessions began December of 2007 and lasted till about January of 2009. Within the time period, the United States lost approximately 8 trillion dollars when the housing market collapsed causing chaos in the financial market led to a collapse in business investments. As consumer spending and business investments declined, it led to the loss of 8.4 million jobs which then caused major employment contraction doubling the unemployment rate from 5% to 10%. Fear began spreading among fellow Americans as their job and financial security was hanging from a small threat, which led to a drastic decrease in consumer spending.

In our society taking hard impacts like these have big influences in our GDP. When a country is in a recession there is limited money to be distributed causing panic to business owners. Leaving them frantically trying to improve on their business and cut workers to save money. Well families suffer from the lack of monetary value and sending our unemployment rate through the roof.

“It is not about how hard you fall, but how you get up and keep going.” Economic recession may be a natural phenomenon in the world’s economies. Every market has its peaks and falls, definitely the United States of America has hers.

Everybody in the United Stated was affected by the recession that began in December of 2007 and spanned all the way to June 2009. Even though the recession is over, many people are still being affected by it and have still not been able to recover from the great recession. “The recent recession features the largest decline in output, consumption, and investment, and the largest increase in unemployment, of any post-war recession”. Many people lost their jobs due to the recession and some of them are still having a hard time finding jobs and getting back on their feet. Businesses

Part 8 - A recession is typically defined as at least two consecutive quarters of economic decline in GDP. When this happens, unemployment tends to rise, personal income may drop, and the price of goods and services become volatile. Most agree that it is impossible to eliminate recession in a capitalistic economy, since it is so cyclic. Recessions may trim weak business and allow stronger ones to survive by employing techniques that improve quality and service. Recession does not mean depression; it simply means that there are peaks and valleys within the overall economic system. Now that economies are more global though, these dips have a far more reaching set of consequences. In most firms, however, recession may result in some lay-offs, but it also may mean greater attention to sustainability, cost-cutting, and a more lean and strategic approach to the individual product or service (Moffatt, 2009).

India the world's seventh largest country and the second most populace nation has been a destination of unrealized potential. In the recent past it has seen as stir of economic activity changing the prim face of the nation. The country has had breath taking reforms bringing in foreign direct investments and foreign institutional investments into the country at a brisk pace. Today India is one of the most exciting emerging markets in the world to be in. A new

Recession is defined as the economic slowdown or decline characterized by slowing down of trade, a magnitude decline in the GDP, and a decrease in employment usually lasting between 6months to a year. This was the situation in the USA the hardest times being from 2008 through 2009 and the early months of 2010. America is still recovering from the effects of the recession that the country experienced from 2007 to 2009.

Business, consumers and employees are more weak to downturns in the economies of trading partners. For example, recession in the USA leads to decrease in demand for UK’s exports, leading to falling in export incomes, lower GDP and incomes, decrease in domestic demand and rising in unemployment.

As highlighted in the case study, India’s Domestic Gross Product (GDP) was well over 3 trillion in 2005 and the