Detail Express or stopping?; The economy   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 404 no. 8804 (Sep. 2012), page SS10-SS12. Topik: Social Conditions & Trends; Politics; Economic Growth; Trends Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.73 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel India's trains move slowly. That gives passengers plenty of time to observe their fellow riders. They are travelling far to visit a hospital, take up a job, enroll at college. Odishan coffee pickers in Karnataka, Assamese students in Kerala and Bihari diamond polishers in Gujarat all move as freely around their country as Americans hop from state to state. That mobility should give India an advantage over countries like China that penalise farmers when they leave their land. Indians are also increasingly well connected. On one 4,200km train ride, through 615 stations, your correspondent never once lost his mobile-phone signal. A decade ago few would have cared, since only 9% had a phone of any kind. Now, according to census data from last year, 63% of householders have a phone, usually a mobile. Ericsson, a maker of phone handsets, said this month that three-quarters of Indians now have access to a mobile. The endless rows of concrete houses with trailing wires seen from the windows tell a story too. The same census showed that of India's 247m households, two-thirds have electricity and nearly half TV. A similar number own bicycles, though only 5%, so far, have a car. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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