Thursday, May 15, 2014

India's new PM has a vision for the future inspired by China

Narendra Modi is India's new PM, which sounds like an incredibly difficult task.

India will soon be the world's largest population by around 2025 and yet contains 1/3 of the world's most impoverished people. To make matters more complex, this gargantuan population speaks a vast variety of languages across the country, and 1/2 of the towns in India cannot be accessed by a car.

India has one third of world's poorest, says World Bank
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10003228/India-has-one-third-of-worlds-poorest-says-World-Bank.html

Narendra Modi dreams of bullet trains and new cities. Can he succeed?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-likely-new-leader-narendra-modi-promises-economic-success-can-he-deliver/2014/05/14/d27864ac-daca-11e3-8009-71de85b9c527_story.html?hpid=z9

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