Name: Manuela Sampaio Teacher: Richard

September 23th, 2013

India and Brazil

Briefly India faces problems of political relationship with Pakistan, with its stifling red tape, creaky infrastructure and a seeming inability to push through much-needed changes and investments decisions. As well as the Brazil, the colonial legacy of the two countries didnt create "initial conditions". The path of the development of both demanded the dismantling of colonialism. This colonialism reflected on Brazilian and Indian late industrialization. Both India and Brazil boast extraordinary disparities of income and property, wealth and poverty, culture and barbarism. The Brazil, in spite of this and perhaps by its recent history, presents a higher degree of social and spatial mobility. Other common problems in these two countries are government's constant policy changes, the widespread and endemic corruption in their society. Also, India must buy its oil, much of its coal and other crucial goods just like Brazil. Even when indicators of education, health and productivity of these countries are not rated highly, it is undeniable that a large population, a vast territory, brings in itself a great economic potential, scientific-technological, military and politician. The economic importance of a large population depends on your educational level, health and productivity (which depends, in turn, of the capital stock) and, therefore, of their income. The two countries have the same strategic goal over the central condition of large peripheral countries and so, or if you enter in the hegemonic structures of power or reduce their vulnerability on these structures. But for that, may provide that, by seeking to achieve this goal, will face serious resistance from States which traditionally form part of those structures.