**India Poverty Scenario**
Skilled scientists advancing Indian space program now
Sen, professional blogger, webmaster And internet Marketer, 08
(Uttoran, Tech Nascent: Tech News, 10/20/8, “Technology in India – Massive Brain Drain”, http://technascent.com/technology-in-india-massive-brain-drain/, accessed 7/5/11 BLG)
India, a very ancient nation, immensely rich in culture, history, literature and arts is also making rapid progress in the field of technology. Considering that India, which is only in its 61st year of independence and self-governance, has made great progress in this field. Technology, both with the help of technologically advanced nations and indigenously developed has made India into an emerging superpower. India over the years has made inroads into the field of space technology, computers, medicine and electronic appliances. India has a well-funded space program, better than most similar economies. We have our own satellite launching centers and we have successfully launched many satellites into space. Initially started with Russian technological help, we now have our own indigenously produced satellites with very competent and professional team of scientists. We also have an ambitious program for the future with plans of sending manned flights into space in the near future. In the field of information technology India truly is a global superpower with the majority of developed nations sourcing work related to that field from India. The country boasts of a rich source of brainpower in IT and related segments. With major players in the IT industry opening up offices in many cities in India, this field has truly seen a phenomenal growth. Standards have gone up and new and new projects are coming up in India and this in turn has seen a huge demand for manpower with the necessary skill sets.
Indian space technology is key to solve poverty
Padma, Director of Graduate Diversity Affairs - University of Rhode Island, 7
(T.V., PhD Oceanography, Science and Development Network “Space technology 'invaluable for development'” 9/29/7, http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/brain-drain/news/space-technology-invaluable-for-development.html, accessed 7/5/11 BLG)
Space technology has enormous potential to help developing countries progress, an international meeting has been told. Karl Doetsch, chairman of US-based firm Athena Global, told a plenary session of the International Astronautical Congress meeting in Hyderabad, India, on Friday (28 September) that sustained poverty reduction needs the application of space technology and that space scientists should play a larger role in policymaking. India uses satellite technology to invigorate development by improving communications and the management of natural disasters and resources such as water, and for weather forecasting, long-distance education and telemedicine services. It is a model other countries should follow, Doetsch says. At the conference, Jason Hay of the US-based Space Policy Institute at the George Washington University pointed out that developing countries are increasingly turning to space technology to speed up their development. Space technology, he said, can also improve technical skills, infrastructure and knowledge capital, and provide services such as global positioning information.
Poverty outweighs
Spina, Ph.D. candidate in social/personality psychology at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, 2000
(Stephanie Urso, Smoke and Mirrors: The Hidden Context of Violence in Schools and Society, p. 201)
This sad fact is not limited to the United States. Globally, 18 million deaths a year are caused by structural violence, compared to 100,000 deaths per year from armed conflict. That is, approximately every five years, as many people die because of relative poverty as would be killed in a nuclear war that caused 232 million deaths, and every single year, two to three times as many people die from poverty throughout the world as were killed by the Nazi genocide of the Jews over a six-year period. This is, in effect, the equivalent of an ongoing, unending, in fact accelerating, thermonuclear war or genocide, perpetuated on the weak and the poor every year of every decade, throughout the world.
**India Conflict Scenario 1/2**
Brain drain hurts India’s economy and growth
Krishnadas, editor of TechIndia, 1 (Kariyatil, EE Times – News and Analysis, “Brain drain hurts developing nations, U.N. reports”, July 19, http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4042261/Brain-drain-hurts-developing-nations-U-N-reports) PG
Brain drain hurts developing nations, U.N. reports
BANGALORE, India — The exodus of Indian engineers mostly to the United States costs India $2 billion annually, according to a recent U.N. study.
While the United Nations Human Development Report 2001 stresses that "technology itself has become a source of economic growth" for countries like India, many of the benefits are being outweighed by the brain drain of engineering talent.
"Rich nations have been opening their doors to developing-country professionals at a high cost to the home countries," the U.N. study warned. Based on the $15,000 to $20,000 average total cost of providing a university education in India, the country losses as much as $2 billion a year in technical investment.
While migrating Indian engineers enjoy a higher social status, they are often derided as "slaves to the almighty dollar," or as individuals who, while benefiting from a highly subsidized government education here, have no incentive to help the Indian society that has trained them.
Growth is directly tied to reducing the risk of South Asian conflict.
Mamoon & Murshed, Professor the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham & Centre for the Study of Civil War, 10
(Dawood & Mansoob, “The conflict mitigating effects of trade in the India-Pakistan case” Econ Gov, 11:145, p160-161, 2010,http://www.springerlink.com/content/4736rl34w118q532/fulltext.pdf) PG
However, if India is able to export or import more, this would at least put a check on any rise in the severity of conflict and hostilities would adjust to some average level. Any decline in Indian trade will enhance hostilities. The current low levels of bilateral trade between Pakistan and India is conflict enhancing, so more trade with increased exports by both sides to each other should be encouraged. More access to Pakistani markets on the Indian side may not lead to conflict mitigation if Pakistan is not able toalso export more to India. A rise in education expenditure puts a check on hostilities, as seen in Graph 1e. Graph 1f is the standard representation of India-Pakistan conflict,and not only best fits historical trends but also explain the rationale behind recent India-Pakistan peace initiatives with decreasing hostilities when not only India but Pakistan also has had economic growth rates as high as 7% per annum. The forecasts suggest that conflict will rise, even if there is a significant increase in combined democracy scores, if growth rates plummet. Both Pakistan and India have seen many such years, when hostilities between both countries rose significantly when at least one of the countries is performing poorly, but were channeling more resources on the military as a proportion of their GDPs. The forecasts favour the economic version over the democratic version of the liberal peace. Thus one may look at current peace talks between both countries with optimism as both are performing well on the economic front and channeling fewer resources on the military as a proportion of national income, while at the same time having a divergent set of political institutions, though recently Pakistan has edged towards greater democracy with elections in February 2008.
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