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CHAPTER 4 : GLOBALISATION AND THE INDIAN ECONOMY
Most regions of the world are getting increasingly of trade and investment policies and, pressures
interconnected. While this interconnectedness from international organisations such as the
across countries has many dimensions — WTO. Improvement in technology is a fascinating
cultural, political, social and economic — this area for students and you may, with a few
chapter looks at globalisation in a more limited directions, encourage them to do their own
sense. It defines globalisation as the integration explorations. While discussing liberalisation, you
between countries through foreign trade and have to keep in mind that the students are
foreign investments by multinational unaware of what India was like in the
corporations (MNCs). As you will notice, the more pre-liberalisation era. A role-play could be
complex issues of portfolio investment have been conceived to compare and contrast the pre and
left out. post-liberalisation era. Similarly, international
If we look at the past thirty years or so, we negotiations under WTO and the uneven
find that MNCs have been a major force in the balances in power are interesting subjects that
globalisation process connecting distant regions can be covered in a discussion mode rather than
of the world. Why are the MNCs spreading their as lectures.
production to other countries and what are the The final section covers the impact of
ways in which they are doing so? The first part globalisation. To what extent has globalisation
of the chapter discusses this. Rather than contributed to the development process? This
relying on quantitative estimates, the rapid rise section draws on the topics covered in Chapters
and influence of the MNCs has been shown 1 and 2 (for example, what is a fair development
through a variety of examples, mainly drawn goal), which you can refer to. Also, examples and
from the Indian context. Note that the examples activities drawn from the local environment are
are an aid to explain a more general point. While a must while discussing this section. This might
teaching, the emphasis should be on the ideas include contexts that have not been covered in
and examples are to be used as illustrations. the chapter, such as the impact of imports on
You can also creatively use comprehension local farmers, etc. Collective brainstorming
passages like the one given after Section II to sessions can be conducted to analyse such
test and reinforce new concepts. situations.
Integration of production and integration of Sources for Information
markets is a key idea behind understanding the
process of globalisation and its impact. This has The call for a fairer globalisation has been given,
been dealt with at length in this chapter, among others, by the International Labour
highlighting the role of MNCs in the process. You Organisation — www.ilo.org. Another interesting
have to ensure that the students grasp this idea resource is the WTO website http://www.wto.org.
with sufficient clarity, before moving on to the It gives access to the variety of agreements that
next topic. are being negotiated at the WTO. For company
related information, most MNCs have their own
Globalisation has been facilitated by several websites. If you want to critically look at
factors. Three of these have been highlighted: the MNCs, one recommended website is
rapid improvements in technology, liberalisation www.corporatewatch.org.uk.
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CHAPTER 4
GLOBALISAGLOBALISATIONTION
GLOBALISATION
GLOBALISAGLOBALISATIONTION
AND THE INDIAN ECONOMYAND THE INDIAN ECONOMY
AND THE INDIAN ECONOMY
AND THE INDIAN ECONOMYAND THE INDIAN ECONOMY
As consumers in today’s world, some
of us have a wide choice of goods and
services before us. The latest models
of digital cameras, mobile phones and
televisions made by the leading
manufacturers of the world are within
our reach. Every season, new models
of automobiles can be seen on Indian
roads. Gone are the days when
Ambassador and Fiat were the only
cars on Indian roads. Today, Indians
are buying cars produced by nearly
all the top companies in the world. A
similar explosion of brands can be
seen for many other goods: from shirts
to televisions to processed fruit juices.
Such wide-ranging choice of goods
in our markets is a relatively recent
phenomenon. You wouldn’t have
found such a wide variety of goods in
Indian markets even two decades
back. In a matter of years, our
markets have been transformed!
How do we understand these
rapid transformations? What are the
factors that are bringing about these
changes? And, how are these changes
affecting the lives of the people?
We shall dwell on these questions in
this chapter.
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PRODUCTION ACROSS COUNTRIES
Until the middle of the twentieth multinational corporations (MNCs)
century, production was largely emerged on the scene. A MNC is a
organised within countries. What company that owns or controls
crossed the boundaries of these production in more than one nation.
countries were raw materials, food MNCs set up offices and factories for
stuff and finished products. Colonies production in regions where they can
such as India exported raw materials get cheap labour and other resources.
and food stuff and imported finished This is done so that the cost of
goods. Trade was the main channel production is low and the MNCs can
connecting distant countries. This was earn greater profits. Consider the
before large companies called following example.
Spreading of ProductionSpreading of Production
Spreading of Production
Spreading of ProductionSpreading of Production
by an MNCby an MNC
by an MNC
by an MNCby an MNC
A large MNC, producing industrial equipment, designs its
products in research centres in the United States, and then
has the components manufactured in China. These are then
shipped to Mexico and Eastern Europe where the products
are assembled and the finished products are sold all over the
world. Meanwhile, the company’s customer care is carried out
through call centres located in India.
This is a call centre in Bangalore, equipped with telecom facilities and access to
Internet to provide information and support to customers abroad.
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In this example the MNC is not only for their closeness to the markets
selling its finished products globally, in the US and Europe. India has
but more important, the goods and highly skilled engineers who can
services are produced globally. As understand the technical aspects of
a result, production is organised in production. It also has educated
increasingly complex ways. The English speaking youth who can
production process is divided into provide customer care services. And
small parts and spread out across the all this probably can mean 50-60 per
globe. In the above example, China cent cost-savings for the MNC!
provides the advantage of being a The advantage of spreading out
cheap manufacturing location. production across the borders to the
Mexico and Eastern Europe are useful multinationals can be truly immense.
LETS WORK THIS OUT
Complete the following statement to show how the production process in the garment
industry is spread across countries.
The brand tag says Made in Thailand but they are not Thai products. We dissect
the manufacturing process and look for the best solution at each step. We are
doing it globally. In making garments, the company may, for example, get cotton
fibre from Korea, ........
INTERLINKING PRODUCTION ACROSS
COUNTRIES
In general, MNCs set up production At times, MNCs set up production
where it is close to the markets; where jointly with some of the local
there is skilled and unskilled labour companies of these countries. The
available at low costs; and where the benefit to the local company of such
availability of other factors of joint production is two-fold. First,
production is assured. In addition, MNCs can provide money for
MNCs might look for government additional investments, like buying
policies that look after their interests. new machines for faster production.
You will read more about the policies Second, MNCs might bring with them WE WILL SHIFT
later in the chapter. the latest technology for production. THIS FACTORY TO
ANOTHER COUNTRY.
Having assured themselves of these IT HAS BECOME
conditions, MNCs set up factories and EXPENSIVE HERE!
offices for production. The money that
is spent to buy assets such as land,
building, machines and other
equipment is called investment.
Investment made by MNCs is called
foreign investment. Any investment
is made with the hope that these
assets will earn profits.
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