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Globalization is a continuous process of increasing interdependence and reliability between nations and their respective citizens which is both multifaceted and multidimensional. In case of billions of people around the globe, globalisation is a irreversible phenomenon impacting their lives in numerous ways. It allows their access to goods and services, investment and earning opportunities, as well as cultural know how of other nations through worldwide network of communication, transportation and trade which was unthinkable fifty years ago. Globalisation is not merely an economic phenomenon facilitating integration of domestic economies into global economy through trade, investment, spread of technology and migration of labour rather it is a unique combination of technological, economic, political and sociocultural determinants. For example-globalisation has provided a channel to an individual in India to buy a foreign automobile or sell handicrafts through medium of trade or an opportunity to foreign institutional investors to put in record bids of 1.20 lakh crores for Coal India Initial public offer. The United Nations ESCWA says globalization is a widely-used term that can be defined in a number of different ways. When used in an economic context, it refers to the reduction and removal of barriers between national borders in order to facilitate the flow of goods, capital, services and labor... although considerable barriers remain to the flow of labor... Globalization is not a new phenomenon. It began in the late nineteenth century, but it slowed down during the period from the start of the First World War until the third quarter of the twentieth century. This slowdown can be attributed to the inward-looking policies pursued by a number of countries in order to protect their respective industries... however, the pace of globalization picked up rapidly during the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. Takis Fotopoulos argues that globalization is the result of systemic trends manifesting the market economy's grow-or-die dynamic, following the rapid expansion of transnational corporations. Because these trends have not been offset effectively by counter-tendencies that could have emanated from trade-union action and other forms of political activity, the outcome has been globalization. This is a multi-faceted and irreversible phenomenon within the system of the market economy and it is expressed as: economic globalization, namely, the opening and deregulation of commodity, capital and labor markets which led to the present form of neoliberal globalization; political globalization, i.e., the emergence of a transnational elite and the phasing out of the all powerful-nation state of the statist period; cultural globalization, i.e., the worldwide homogenization of culture; ideological globalization; technological globalization; social globalization. To sum up, we can take a passage from Rudi dornbush (2000. p.91). This has been the best century ever, never mind the great depression, a momentary setback from communism and socialism and two great wars. Mankind today is far and further ahead of where it has ever been. Nation state has been dismantled in favor of global economy; state
enterprise and economic repression give way to free enterprise and breathtaking innovation. If this century taught anything it surely this: even daunting setbacks like depression and war are only momentary tragedies in a relentless advance of the standard of living and the scope of enjoying better lives.
created a wide range of jobs. However it also meant that foreign companies with better quality products displaced Indian counterparts leading to winding up or low profit margins for Indian companies. While on one hand globalization places wide variety of resources on the doorstep of any nation but it also emphasizes the survival of the fittest. Interest rates Along with domestic determinants, globalization also plays an important part in determination of interest rates in an economy. In a globalised economy, excess demand of funds in one part of world is met by excess supply in other part and vice versa ,thereby keeping volaitility of interest rates in check at both national and international level.for example-movement of savings in the form of funds from east asian and latin countries to USA kept long term real interest rate there low. Forex market Tremendous rise of globalisation has important implications for forex market which is responsible for determining currency values in international business transactions.availability of modern technology has not only enhanced the transparency of these markets but also increased the reach of investors scattered all around the globe.thus globalisation has greatly increased the confidence of international participants in various forex markets which has essential implications for international business community.
SERVICE SECTOR An important feature of Indias growth story has been the revolutionary growth of service sector. The share of service sector in GDP has increased from 27% to 48% between 19512000.while in 1950-1990, the service sector gained a 13% share, the gain in the 1990s alone was 8 percentage points. Comparison of the actual and trend growth rates clearly points that growth in several service sub sectors known as fast growers accelerated sharply in 1990 while remaining sub sectors known as trend growers grew more or less at a trend rate. A.FAST GROWERS Business services mainly on the account of IT sector were unarguably the fastest growing sector in the 1990s, with growth averaging nearly 20% a year. Communication services had a growth of 14% during 1990s mostly due to telecom. Growth rate in banking sector jumped from 12% in 1980s to 13% in 1990s. B.TREND GROWERS
Growth rate of distribution services averaged about 6% in 1980s accelerated to 7% in 1990s and growth rate of personal services almost doubled in 1990s compared to 1980s. Thus growth registered in service sector in 1990s was mainly due to fast growth achieved in communication, financial services, business services like IT and community services. Policy changes mainly on account of liberalisation and economic reforms since 1991 was an important factor in the spectacular growth in services sector in India, especially reforms in relation to deregulation, liberalisation of FDI, privatisation and other policy reforms. AGRICULTURE SECTOR In the year 1950-2000, the share of agriculture sector in GDP declined from 58% to 25% and average growth (in percent per annum) decreased from 4.4 during 1981-1990 to 3.1 during 1991-2000. Following were impact of liberalisation on Indian agricultural sector1. Except fruits and vegetables, all other agricultural commodities witnessed decline in growth in reform period which can be easily surmised from table. 2. Obsession with commodity pricing severely hindered the efforts to promote improved and modern technology and innovation. 3. Horticulture crops registered impressive growth during reform periods. 4. Before liberalisation majority of Indian farmers gained access to seeds from state government institutes but with liberalisation, Indian seed market was opened to global agricultural biggies like Monsanto, Cargill. In an unregulated market seed prices shot up requiring heavy investment while yield and subsequently output was low, thus forcing domestic farmers into heavy debts. 5. Liberalisation policies removed the government subsidies being provided to Indian farmers, thus effectively withdrawing their only support system. 6. A slight increase in per capita income of farm and labour households during reforms was recorded mainly due to non farm incomes than farm incomes. The sharp decline in agricultural sector growth cannot be solely attributed to era of liberalisation as primary changes in Indian governments fiscal policy lead to sharp decline in public investment in irrigation and other rural infrastructural projects which further dampened the private investment in this sector. MANUFACTURING SECTOR In the 1950-2000, the share of industries in Indian GDP increased from 15% to 27%.As a part of liberalisation initiatives adopted in 1991, industry reforms took place which had considerable impact on the manufacturing sector. Some of the impacts have been listed below1. Manufacturing sector output has grown at 7% per year since 1980-81, with reforms making little difference to the trend in 1990s. 2. Growth of construction sector-Following the relaxation of supply side restrictions on cement and steel and a fall in their real prices, construction sector had shown an impressive growth. The employment share has doubled from 2.3% of total workforce in 1983 to 4.4% in 1999-2000.(chadda and sahu 2002)
3. The capital goods sector has grown at 6.7% per year during 1981-98 and at 5.7% per year during 1992-98.Within capital goods, production(in numbers) of passenger car increased from 31000 in 1980-81 to about 5.8 lakh in 2000 showing annual growth rate of 15% during two decades. However gross value added in machine tool industry grew at only 1.7% per year during 1981-97 witnessing negative growth rate after that. 4. The share of consumer goods in total of registered manufacturing output has increased from 35% in 1970-71 to nearly 44% in 1997-98. 5. Industrial markets have become more competent and product quality improved substantially 6. The manufacturing sectors share in employment has remained roughly same since 1980s but the level of investment has increased from nearly 30% to nearly 38% from 1983 to 19992000.
FDIs
Until the 1990s India had a very restrictive foreign private investment policy. It relied more on the bilateral and multilateral loans with long maturities. FDIs were mainly encouraged for acquiring the industrial technologies; these imports were preferred to the financial and technical collaborations. The Indian law also prohibited the use of foreign brands in order to promote the hybrid domestic brands. These kinds of restrictive policies paralysed the Indian economy. However in 1980s India witnessed a relaxation of its foreign investment by setting up of Maruti, a central government joint venture small car project with the Japanese motor car company Suzuki. After the reforms in 1991 the perspective of the FDIs has changed in India. It is not only seen as the capital inflow in the country but also as a source of technology and managerial skills which are considered necessary in an open and competitive world economy. India Benchmarked its policies against those of the other South-Asian countries to increase the inflow of the FDI. Over the past 20 years India has allowed FDIs in almost all the sectors in India except the agricultural sector.
FOREX
After the Indian independence, Forex reserve was $2133.8 million but ever since after independence to promote our own industries the government had to be strict on the exports as well as on imports. Thereby the foreign exchange reserve diminished year after year. In 19601965 the net reserves shrunk close to $350 million and in the year 1967-1968 it was at alltime low $268.1 million, but then the Indian government realized that they needed to import petroleum and efficient technology for capital goods. The Forex reserve grew to $976.5 million in the year 1970-71. In January 1991, Indian foreign exchange reserve was $1.2 Billion which depleted by half of its value as in June 1991. Had there not been a timely intervention by the authorities concerned, India would have defaulted the external balance of payment obligations.
The exchange rate in India has are broadly divided into two halves one was the era 1991 and the after the liberalization in 1992. The government of India plays a very important role in controlling the foreign exchange transactions in the economy. There was a savior payment crisis in July 1991 which led to the reforms in the exchange rate system prevailing at that time. Which led to the formation of liberalization of exchange rate management system (LERMS) and resulted in the conversion of the rupee in to two types of exchanges. The first one is official rate which is 40% of Forex administered by the RBI later 60% is free floating and is determined by the market.
Employment:
India had always been on agricultural pinnacle of the entire exports of food products since the medieval ages. Indian spices have been renowned worldwide and are still extensively being used thus for the same reason Indians considered agriculture and agricultural allied services as lucrative employment options. According to the (graph employment) During the years 1947-1970 agriculture and its allied services accounted for nearly 69% of employment but after the reforms the things started to pick up pace for the industrial and services sector. A close look at the graph clearly indicates that now the industrial and services sector now account for nearly 46% of the total employment which once used to be a mere 30%. Also India has a majority of young population who have a good fluency of English and also have a sound intellect which makes them an ideal recruit for the IT and the BPO industry. This has brought to a change in face of the Indian economy and also promise good employment opportunities in near future. INTEREST RATES:
Interest rates before the reforms were to govern cross-subsidize the various sectors of the economy thereby making it complex year after year. The government used to set the lending rates for loans for more than 2,00,000 . This was abolished in October 1994 and since then the banks have to announce the prime lending rates under the RBI guidelines. For loans fewer than Rs 200,000 rates since April 1998 the interest rates can be freely set as long as they do not cross the prime lending rate. While on the other hand the deposit rates liberalization started form the year 1992. By the end of the year 1995 interest rates for term deposits up till two years were liberalized. The threshold was reduced to one year while the maturity was reduced to 30 days from that of 46 days. This was further brought down to 15 days in 1995 and now at present its 7 days
While china has larger number of skilled labour like engineers, but the same availability of skilled work force for service sector is insufficient and inefficient. Chinas skilled labour also lacks fluency in English language which is a pre request and dominating global business communication medium.
China has outpaced India in the implementation of reforms in agricultural sector. This has resulted in China registering better growth rates in comparison to India. Although India has more arable land in comparison to China, yet China has left India behind in production of wheat and rice. Further agricultural techniques used in China are more modern and developed leading to better quality and high yield of crops while Indian farmers continue to depend on annual rainfall for better harvest and committing suicides due to non repayment of vicious money lenders financial loans.
came in the year 1991 and the Indian export share began to increase and is now close to 1.1% of the world export. Exports of goods and services (% of GDP) From the graph 3 it is evident that the exports of goods and services is one of key components of chinas GDP whereas in India it just mere 15-20%. Indias top exports comprises of softwares and ITeS, gems and jewellery, and agricultural products while the Chinese main areas of exports include electric and electronic products, telecommunications and micro computer equipments.
Population:
A research released by Adecco Institute, which conducts research on the Chinese labour market, in cooperation with the University of Warwick, says that China will suffer shortages of people in five key areas: management talent, English language skills, R&D personnel, senior and secondary skilled workers, and holders of professional certificates. According to the research, the work force of China will have a growth of less than 5% from the year 2007 till 2015. And by the end of 2015, 33% of the working class population of China will be aged over 50 years. While in India, 60% of the work force will be under the age of 30.
Chinas rapidly aging population is going to deflate its work force, making India as the manufacturing hub of the world, According to analysis from Morgan Stanley and The Global Times. The World Bank is predicting that the GDP of china will fall to 7.7 percent in 2015 and to 6.7 percent by 2020. And according to the study of Morgan Stanley the growth of India will be opposite in direction surpassing the growth of China. A poll in china shows that 87 percent of the people are expecting the government to take of the retirement income and health care. China will have about 200 million people above 60 years in 2015, and retirement is expected to add 10 million retirees per annum. And if China fails to deliver the expectation of the aging population, it could be a real social and political crisis. On the other hand India will have a bright future regarding its demography.
Political System:
Under chinas socialist political and economic system, the government is responsible for planning and managing the national economy. Under the state constitution of 1982, the state is to manage the countrys economic development and the state council is to manage the planning and implementation of the national economic plan and the state budget. The government controls and supervise the major economic sectors such as the banking, state planning commission, state economic commission, agriculture, industry and the service sector. The role of government in the economy was strengthened by the influence of the Chinese communist party. Important decision makers at all levels of the sectors were either the party members or worked with the colleagues who were party members. The party served as a powerful alternative network for the planning and the implementation of the economic policies of the government. India is a mixed economy having features of both capitalist and socialistic economic system. In India the countrys economic development is carried out by the planning commission of India, this is independent of the cabinet headed by the prime minister. A staff drafts national plans under the guidance of commission; draft plans are presented for approval to national Development Council, the council makes changes and then the draft is presented to cabinet and subsequently to parliament for the approval of the plan. China can implement any economic policy lot easier unlike other major economies in the world like US, Japan or other European countries because of its communist structure. Amid the global recession in the year 2008, Chinas aggressive, decisive and definitely timed stimulus packages at the start of the financial crisis did play a major role in chinas quick rebound and its GDP grew by 8.7% in the year 2009. Whereas, in India the GDP significantly slowed down to 6.8% in the year 2009, tight monetary initiatives by the government along with the large domestic saving and corporate retained earnings are financing investment.
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