Connecting Wave: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Jayashankar M. Swaminathan

Chapter 4 in Indian Economic Superpower:Fiction or Future?, 2009, pp 55-57 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractNine out of 10 times when I introduce myself to the person sitting next to me on the plane in the United States, they are surprised to find that I am not a software programmer. They are quite relieved when I mention to them that, indeed, my undergraduate degree happens to be in computer science and engineering. It has become an expectation among many people in the United States that any Indian (or Indian-looking) person would be a trained IT or software specialist. Even for someone like me who grew up in India, it is hard to believe that this change could have happened over the last 25 years…

Keywords: Indian Economy; India; Doing Business in India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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