Development of the countries
India
The globalisation of a company goes always along with a great amount of opportunities but also with many risks. India and China are both very interesting countries to move into.
India became democratic after gaining independence from Britain in 1947. From then, up to the early 1990s India has had a mixed economy, which was identified by a lot of state-owned businesses, centralized planning, and subsidies. This lead to a dramatic constriction of the private sector. During this time it was really hard for the private sector to expand because they needed a permission of the government to do so. Sometimes the companies had to wait for month to get the allowance for normal business activities such as expanding production or hiring a new director. Additional there where high import tariffs, production quotas, very strict labour laws, highly restricted foreign investment and price setting by the government, instead of by the market, which made impossible for the private sector to get stronger and almost very hard and unattractive for foreign investors to go into the Indian market.
In 1991, the government recognized that it could not go on like this and created a high-flying economic reform programme. The industrial licensing system got removed and areas which where reserved for the stated-owned companies got opened up to the private sector. Also foreign investors where welcome now. Foreign ownership of 100 per cent was still only allowed under certain circumstances but foreign equity stakes, up to 51 per cent, got permission without any problems. In addition, raw material and a lot of industrial goods could be imported for free and the maximum tariff for imported goods was cut down from 400 per cent to 65 per cent. The ...