Talk:Economy of India/Archive 3

message: "growing unemployment and growing poverty, which has seen a decrease of just 10% since the 1980s."
just thought i'd point that out :P --142.68.236.133 00:15, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: huh?

message: Have added a line. Didn't know how to add the reference.
If the line is kept, could someone add this link?
Saksham 14:34, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rural Employment Guarantee Bill 

message: What is meant by "disguised unemployment"? People feigning to get benefits? -- Sundar \talk \contribs 05:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See Unemployment types#Hidden unemployment & Underemployment. In India, the most common scenario is too many people working in their family business/farm over the required nos., when they don't find suitable employment elsewhere, thus not contributing to the farm/firms' productivity. Pamri • Talk 09:10, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, got it now. Thanks. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 10:41, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disguised unemployment 

message: Thank you to all users who made this page. I learnt several things. Fine. --MissingLinks 08:55, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Learnt

message: I have reordered the 5 Ind.cos. by Market capitalisation (MC) table as per their Forbes Global 2000 ranking, since MC is pretty volatile (since its based on stock movement) and hence does not give as clear a picture as the forbes list, which ranks companies on parameters like Sales, Profit, Assets and Market Values, besides being global. I have moved this sentence here, since it does not fit in the industry para. Will readd it in some form or reword it.
In terms of Market capitalisation, India remains one of the top 15 markets in the world with $450 billion in mid-2005. 
--Pamri • Talk 14:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  changes to industry para 

message: First of all, congrats on having one of the most clearly worded intros of all the featured articles I've checked so far. With only a few minor changes the intro was entirely (and mostly correctly) machine parsable by link grammar. One little bump I ran into was the follow text:
:The socio-economic problems India faces are a burgeoning population, lack of infrastructure, growing inequality, unemployment and poverty, which has seen a decrease of 10% since the 1980s.
It isn't completely clear which of the list has decreased. Commons sense would have me assume the last, but only because it seems unlikly that all would have decreased by 10%. I'd like to adjust the sentence so the parsing is non-ambigious, but I need to know which actually decreased! Thanks --Gmaxwell 21:49, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  The 10% number applies to poverty only.  Actually, it is one of the indicators of poverty, child malnutrition that has declined by that percentage, but I think that the 10% figure is valid and gives an indication of a possible trend. Sunray 02:26, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  grammar in intro 

message: I have moved the para on national income estimates to Economic history of India. While the data is interesting, it really does not add much here and unnecessarily lengthens the history section. Contrast it with the two other estimates added, which are to the point and act as background info. --Pamri • Talk 03:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Income estimates 

message: As it stands the graph shows a comparison of the GDP percapita of various South Asian countries, and South Korea as a percentage to the US, but it only goes up to the year 1995, it would be nice if the chart showed the effects of India's liberalization from 1995 to 2005. I did some calculations using data here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
But I am not a registered user so5 I don't want to update the image.
:Thanks. if you could paste the data here, I could update the image for you. But I suggest registering, since it won't take much time. --Pamri • Talk 01:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I just registered. Here are the calculations for 2005
*South Korea: (20300/41800) ~= 48.6%
*India: (3400/41800)        ~= 8.1%
*Pakistan: (2400/41800)     ~= 5.7%
*Sri Lanka: (4300/41800)    ~= 10.3%
*Bangladesh: (2100/41800)   ~= 5.0%
Not sure how to upload images. @Dhruval 03:46, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update South Korea comparison chart with 2005 data 

message: Article like this is going to need lots of updates over time.  I am going to make a list of data that needs to be updated (I would do it but I find the citation style way too confusing to bother myself).
* Indian GDP figures need to be updated to 2005 numbers.  This are available from various sites like CIA factbook
* Indian export and import figures need to be updated.--Blacksun 21:58, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The CIA factbook data is quite outdate for things like GDP. Better to use the worldbank figures. You can find the URL in the reference section. I will try to update it once I find some time. --Pamri • Talk 09:27, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are the latest export figures: Indian exports hit $100bn registering a growth of 25%.--Blacksun 08:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: General updates

message: This article is too long and cumbersome. Its time to create stubs for national labour market and its associated regulations and laws. Anwar saadat 22:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree with you.  It is not really that long and it has been sectioned nicely.  If someone is not interested in a particular section they can skip it.  I personally hate creating too many "main articles" as I believe that a lot of people would rather read few more lines instead of clicking on another article which is going to be mostly same as the original section. --Blacksun 07:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Time to trim down article

message: The introductory section claims that poverty has reduced by 10% since the 80s, a claim that is flatly contradicted by the section on poverty. Also, the point about " The question of whether economic reforms has reduced or increased poverty has fuelled debates" stands just by itself without mentioning the corresponding figures (39% to 26%). I'd change them myself, but I just wanted to confirm if it is here through some sort of consensus.  — Ravikiran 06:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poverty 

message: Fdi india seems an odd standalone article. How about merging it into the External trade and investment section here. Cordless Larry 23:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge FDI article 

message: Anwar, your latest edits  probably mean that these should start having subarticles of their own. I don't think that we need those exact figures in tables in the main article. — Ravikiran 06:39, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All figures are needed. When sub-articles are eventually created for Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing and Services, these data may be moved there. Anwar 06:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anwar's edits 

message: :*http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1822829.cms
::Seven of the top 10 happiest countries, according to the first 'World Map of Happiness', are from western democracies, while countries in Asia, known for their strong cultural values, family ties and collective identities surprisingly scored low — China (82), Japan (90) and Thailand (76). 
::While Denmark's satisfaction with life index was placed at 273.33, India's was at 180. The map, claiming to be the first to illustrate international differences in happiness, placed US at 23, UK at 41 and France at 62. 
:::vkvora 06:49, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poverty reason for India's rank