Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World
Author: Mira Kamdar
India is everywhere: on magazine covers and cinema marquees, at the gym and in the kitchen, in corporate boardrooms and on Capitol Hill. Through incisive reportage and illuminating analysis, Mira Kamdar explores India's astonishing transformation from a developing country into a global powerhouse. She takes us inside India, reporting on the people, companies, and policies defining the new India and revealing how it will profoundly affect our future -- financially, culturally, politically.
The world's fastest-growing democracy, India has the youngest population on the planet, and a middle class as big as the population of the entire United States. Its market has the potential to become the world's largest. As one film producer told Kamdar when they met in New York, "Who needs the American audience? There are only 300 million people here." Not only is India the ideal market for the next new thing, but with a highly skilled English-speaking workforce, elite educational institutions, and growing foreign investment, India is emerging as an innovator of the technology that is driving the next phase of the global economy.
While India is celebrating its meteoric rise, it is also racing against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than two dollars per day, to find the sustainable energy to fuel its explosive economic growth, and to navigate international and domestic politics to ensure India's security and its status as a global power. India is the world in microcosm: the challenges it faces are universal -- from combating terrorism, poverty, and disease to protecting the environment and creating jobs. The urgency ofthese challenges for India is spurring innovative solutions, which will catapult it to the top of the new world order. If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it will save us all. If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world.
Mira Kamdar tells the dramatic story of a nation in the midst of redefining itself and our world. Provocative, timely, and essential, Planet India is the groundbreaking book that will convince Americans just how high the stakes are -- what there is to lose, and what there is to gain from India's meteoric rise.
DID YOU KNOW?
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India is the world's fourth-largest economy.
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By 2034, India will be the most populous country on Earth, with 1.6 billion people.
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India's middle class is already larger than the entire population of the United States.
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One out of three of the world's malnourished children live in India.
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India is home to the biggest youth population on earth:
600 million people are under the age of 25.
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72,000,000 cell phones will be sold in India in 2007.
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India just edged past the United States to become the second-most-preferred destination for foreign direct investment after China.
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In 1991, Indians purchased 150,000 automobiles; in 2007, they are expected to purchase 10 million.
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By 2008, India's total pool of qualified graduates will be more than twice as large as China's.
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By 2015, an estimated 3.5 million white-collar U.S. jobs will be offshored.
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India is the largest arms importer in the developing world.
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American corporations expect to earn $20 to $40 billion from the civilian nuclear agreement with India.
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In 2007, there are 2.2 million Indian Americans, a number expected to double every decade.
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Twenty-nine percent of India's population speaks English -- that's 350 million people.
Foreign Affairs
With India now developing almost as rapidly as China, we can expecta slew of ecstatic studies in which exuberance replaces analytic rigor and even common sense. Kamdar is convinced that India will shortly be recognized as the model for late-developing countries. The United States cannot serve as a model, she believes, because it absorbs far too much of the earth's resources and produces too much of its pollution. Japan cannot because it has a uniquely homogenous population. Kamdar makes her case for India by quoting interviews with Indian leaders and citing a bevy of facts and figures. In the latter part of the book, she does introduce some negative factors, particularly when she addresses the problems of India's 600,000 villages, its urban slums, and the millions of Indians who are living on less than $2 a day. Overall, however, the book captures a certain spirit of Indian optimism that sets India apart from other late-developing countries -- including China, where there is greater attention to problems and less counting of chickens before they hatch.
Library Journal
Here's your ticket to the new India, where technological innovation is encouraged and a free market reigns. From a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice
Author: Joe Schriver
Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Shifting Paradigms in Essential Knowledge for Social Work Practice, Fourth Edition
Joe M. Schriver, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
This comprehensive text explores, compares, and contrasts both traditional and alternative paradigms in examining human behavior and the social environment. The text focuses at each system level on the need for multiple perspectives that respect the vast diversity of persons and environments with whom social workers interact. It examines new paradigms that include diversity, feminism, client empowerment, individual development, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Highlights of the Fourth Edition:
- Includes a new chapter focusing on traditional and alternative perspectives on social work knowledge for global practice, including theories of the state and international development theory.
- Offers new content on spirituality as a major influence on HBSE across system levels and on the impact of the environment and environmental hazards on human behavior.
- New pedagogical tools include discussion questions designed to more fully integrate illustrative readings with chapter content, and streamlined topic listings at the beginning of each chapter.
- Major revisions reflect the spirit and intent of the new CSWE Educational Policies and Standards (EPAS).
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Julia M. Norlin, Wayne A. Chess, Orren Dale, and Rebecca Smith
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Susan P. Robbins, Pranab Chatterjee, and Edward R. Canda
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Booknews
Intended for graduate- and advanced college-level students of social work, this text covers traditional and alternative paradigms of social work knowledge and practice and of individuals; and perspectives on families, groups, organizations, and community. This update (previous, 1995) includes illustrative readings at the end of chapters. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Booknews
In this iteration, Schriver (U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) addresses the issue of how social workers may boost their relevance in the rapidly evolving domestic and global social environment. His strategy is to deconstruct the field so as to give the social environment parity with human behavior<-->a decided paradigm shift; integrate theory with policy/practice concerns; and invoke the historical focus of social work on poverty reduction. Includes excerpts from the second (1998) and first (1995) edition prefaces, a series of "illustrative readings," and an Internet search guide. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Preface to Second Edition | ||
| Preface to First Edition | ||
| Ch. 1 | Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) and Paradigms | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Traditional and Alternative Paradigms | 58 |
| Ch. 3 | Paradigm Thinking and Social Work Knowledge for Practice | 112 |
| Ch. 4 | Traditional/Dominant Perspectives on Individuals | 158 |
| Ch. 5 | Alternative/Possible Perspectives on Individuals | 223 |
| Ch. 6 | Perspectives on Familiness | 303 |
| Ch. 7 | Perspectives on Groups | 377 |
| Ch. 8 | Perspectives on Organizations | 422 |
| Ch. 9 | Perspectives on Community (ies) | 472 |
| Ch. 10 | Putting It All Together: Toward More Complete Views of Humans and Knowledge about Us | 526 |
| Index | 535 |
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