Adam, I just moved from India to the US (an intra-company transfer for 2 years). I beg to differ here. I don't think that India is doing a reasonable job with infrastructure. Infact, it is falling apart. Electricity is still not available to manufacturing industry, most software companies (where outsourcing and design happens) deploy their own diesel generator sets. The public transport system in most cities is crumbling given high growth of migration of people from rural/semi-urban areas to cities looking for jobs.
The farmers are getting poorer. The government is hardly improving the infrastructure in any ways -- airports are one of the worst, come winter and 50% of all flights from/to Delhi will get delayed by 10-16 hours. High-speed internet at home is still a dream, try getting >256kbps. There is no cable-internet really. DSL is mostly regulated. More importantly, I haven't seen any serious design work happening there. Do you have specific examples? Most of it is outsourcing and few, if any, companies are moving up the value chain. Call-center is hardly a white-collar job. I do not know of a single company doing design for export. Except for pharma companies which are innovating (and sometimes just replicating) and exporting medicines for 1/10th the cost. There is one thing though -- Indian economy is mostly domestic which isolates it well from boom/busts in other economies, like south-east asian crisis etc. Gaurav On 11/6/05, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > India on the other hand has steadily been building the necessary > infrastructure, and while they haven't seen the growth China has > (Because they've been building infrastructure instead of just > production), they are in a far better position to take advantage of > things in the future. > [..] > still production stuff, not design. India on the other hand is getting > White Collar jobs and building the necessary experience in Engineering > and Design to actually take over the portion of the work that stays > onshore when outsourcing to China happens. India in other words is doing > what Japan did in the 1950's and 1960's. With likely the same results in > the future as Indian companies start to design and produce their own
