MALNUTRITION IN INDIA India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies sitting on a population of 1.241 billion [1]. Yet still‚ since its independence in 1947 majority of Indian population is either at or below the National Poverty Line. According to a report by the World Bank‚ malnutrition in India is more common than in Sub-Saharan Africa. More than a third of malnourished children live in India. The number is almost 5 times higher than that of China. Malnutrition thus has alarming implications
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McDonald’s in India McDonald’s uses a multidomestic strategy in India. This can be seen from its use of local suppliers‚ its adaptive pricing strategies and the removal of the company’s representative product‚ the “Big Mac”‚ and replacing it with a range of new products specifically catered to the Indian culture and preferences. Unlike in other countries‚ a large proportion of Indians do not eat pork or beef‚ and many others are vegetarians. It is therefore practically impossible for McDonald’s
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League‚ the founder of Pakistan‚ didn’t hold the same opinion with the most people. Fearing that their privileged position might be threatened in a democratic India society with Hindu majority‚ the Muslim elite from the All-India Muslim League proposed a plan calling for a separate Islam homeland ---- Pakistan for all the Muslims in India. In order to support their perspective‚ they drew the inspiration from Muhammad Iqbal’s philosophy and poetry and created a new viewpoint called “two-nation theory”
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DIGITAL INDIA Digital India A programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy DIGITAL INDIA What is Digital India? Digital India is a Programme to prepare India for a knowledge future. The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT The focus is on making technology central to enabling change. It is an Umbrella Programme – covering many departments. It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single‚ comprehensive
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and traces its roots to the silver standard currency basket of the colonial rule. Originally produced in India in the 15th and 16th centuries by Mogul rulers‚ the currency shifted to Gold Standards in 1898 with the British dominance of the subcontinent. The currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India that manages the policies through its broader mandate as the acting central bank of India. Historically‚ the currency has been pegged to the British sterling and then to the US Dollar until 1971
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McDonald’s in India‚ Critical Thinking Analysis Do you think McDonald’s has done well in addressing the key macro- environmental factors in India‚ and why? I will start off by saying; Yes‚ I think McDonald’s did really well in addressing the key macro-environmental factors in India. To give some more debt to this answer‚ I found it convenient to use the PESTEL analysis as a tool to identify the key macro-environmental factors that were relevant for McDonalds when they entered India‚ and then shortly
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booming ever since India came out of the shackles of imperialism and emerged as a politically‚ socially as well as financially independent nation. Although India attained its freedom more than about sixty years ago‚ the emergence of the Indian economy on the global scene has been a rather recent development. This is because of the realization of the true economic growth potential of India‚ by the foreign investors as well as business houses. Till about the recent times. India continued to be a whole
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distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors‚[1]most scientists agree that wildlife around is impacted by human activities. 2. The Wildlife in India is a mix of species of different types of organisms.[1] Apart from a handful of the major farm animals such as cows‚ buffaloes‚ goats‚ poultry and sheep‚ India has an amazingly wide variety of animals native to the country. It is home to tigers‚ lions‚Leopards‚pythons‚ wolves
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Outline Thesis statement: The purpose of this paper discuss what role does the caste system play in India today? The word “caste” finds its origin in the Portuguese word “casta” which means “race” or “breed”. Thus caste basically means people belonging to the same breed. According to E.A.G. Blunt‚ ‘caste is an endogamous group or collection of endogamous groups‚ bearing a common name‚ membership of which is hereditary; imposing on its members certain
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Human Migration Factors Migration‚ the movement of people from one place‚ origin or country to another1. For as long as man can remember migration has been a big part in our lives. People have migrated continuously since their emergence as a species. The art of migrating is to move from place to place or country to country‚ to find what we searched for‚ A suitable environment for our families and us to live in. It is vital for humans to keep on the move or migrating. Many people migrate to different
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