Country Analysis of India

Country Analysis: India

Our group decided to do our country analysis over India. The capital of India is New Delhi and the two official languages in India are Hindi and English. India is the seventh largest country area wise and has the second largest population. The Indian economy is the tenth largest in the world with the third largest purchasing power parity.

India has a population of 1.237 billion people which stated before is the second most populated country behind China. Articles in India's constitution protect education as a fundamental right to the population. Recently India has been improving their primary education system and has got their literacy rate up to 74.04% in 2011 which was one time at 12% in 1947. The inflation rate in India in August of 2012 was at 6.1%. As you can see from the table below, India's GDP per Capita is growing every year and has nearly doubled since 2004. The GDP Per Capita is now at 1106.8. Another noteworthy statistic is since 2004 India's Gross National Product was at 28,171 and in 2012 climbed all the way to 88,981.17.

With an electorate of over 700 million, India is the largest democratic government. India's current constitution came into effect in 1950. The constitution is the longest written constitution of any country in modern day with 444 articles and 97 amendments. The constitution was originally drafted with a basis of English Common law and included many important U.S. court decisions. The constitution tries to achieve three things including, justice, liberty, and equality.

India has had their share of political problems over the years. Throughout the past 50 years in fact, there have been many disputes between Parliament and Supreme Court causing an ever changing judicial review system and a growing list of amendments. Politics in India can also be very corrupt and something that is dangerous to be part of. Political assassinations are not all that uncommon and have happened even in recent years.

Soon after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, India began to rethink its foreign policy and began developing closer relations to the United States. The rapid growth in India's economy lately along with likeness between the United States computer and internet industries have led to a very close relationship to the United States. India's growing population and economy makes the United States relationship with India crucial.

The United States is also one of India's largest trading partners. In 2011 The U.S. exported over 21.5 billion dollars worth of goods and imported 36.15 billion dollars worth. Leading up to this, in 2005 President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh created a program called the Trade Policy Forum. This program was put into place with the goal of increasing