Demography, Economy and Culture of India

Emerging Economies - India

In this course, Professor Pritam Singh (Oxford Brookes University) talks about India, her characteristics, her history, population dynamics, trade relationships and quality of life of her people. We begin by: (i) giving an overview of the main characteristics of India; and (ii) learn about India’s development and industrial structure; following into talking about (iv) India’s population structure; (v) the role of transnational corporations in India; (vi) India’s trade relationships with other countries; and (vii) see how urbanisation has affected India; before finally (viii) investigate changes in quality of life for people living in India.

Demography, Economy and Culture of India

In this lecture, we begin to introduce the main characteristics of India. To start, we look at the population dynamics of India, and how it has now surpassed China with an estimated population of 1.44 billion people. We also look at its economic growth and its per-capita income, two measures of equality and quality of life. Moving on, we see India’s position in geopolitics, before finishing off by looking at its cultural, religious, environmental and agricultural diversity.