ARTICLE · 17 APRIL 2008

Doing Business In India

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Here are some facts that the average Westerner may not know about India. It now offers some of the largest software and systems developers in the world - TCS and Infosys, for example, turnover more than US$2 billion in revenue. India is the second fastest-growing economy in the world, according to the British High Commission.

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This article was first produced in September 2006, and the information it contains is correct as of that date.

Here are some facts that the average Westerner may not know about India.

It now offers some of the largest software and systems developers in the world - TCS and Infosys, for example, turnover more than US$2 billion in revenue. India is the second fastest-growing economy in the world, according to the British High Commission. And despite the clichés, India is not a monoculture – with more than 1.1 billion in population, it is as useless to generalise the behaviour of an Indian as it is to assume that Germans, the English and the French all act the same way.

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