The point of this posting was show that the IT industry (for India this is a boom industry--over 4% of GDP is IT and about 25% of India's exports of goods and services are software or IT exports. If you tell me this didn't lead to Indian growth I have to disagree. The point is that it did grow but spread the benefits unevenly since few people are needed by the sector (the revenues per employee is high though much lower than the US or Israel). Roughly 2.5 million are employed by the Indian IT industry, it's less than 1% of India's workforce. However, the gains from the industry is disproportionately secured by the IT professionals, the entrepreneurs, etc. Consequently, cities like Bangalore are being barricaded in and people with average and low incomes excluded from the real estate boom. There are poor people in Bangalore, who are being pushed out because of rising land prices. Old shacks are making way for fancy apartment buildings and further out of the city California style houses abound. It's an Indian version of exclusionary development. Incidentally, most Indian IT workers are engineers not high school graduates or non-STEM candidates. This is another reason why India continues to hold onto the outsourcing markets--better educated and cheaper, although the salary gap is narrowing. My college friends in Seattle hire Romanians, Indians are too damn expensive!
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