On 08-Jun-09, at 8:03 PM, ss wrote:
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A bit old - but nothing wakes me up like Pakistan
Which is kind of fitting, since I think nothing wakes up Pakistan like
India. I get the impression that if the average Pakistani was aware
comparatively just how little time the average Indian spends thinking
about Pakistan, things would be very different.
Very few FIRs are registered and hardly any figures of financial
losses are
disclosed to the media. But a significant drop in the industry’s
growth
rate is surely due to security reasons. India’s unsafe security
environment
could be costing its BPO and ITES industry more than $500 million
annually
by conservative estimates. According to Forrester Research, the
Indian
industry is losing up to 30 per cent of its growth rate due to
reasons like
data leakage and unsafe ethos.
The Transparency International CPI for last year puts India at no 85
for perceived corruption (lower rank is less corrupt). This is pretty
shameful on the face of it, but Pakistan is at #134. What this means
to Pakistan's growth rate is anybody's guess.
-Taj.
