Investment

Investment can create jobs and infrastructure; aid can meet urgent needs or improve services; small-scale schemes can help households build reliable incomes. These approaches often work together rather than acting as alternatives.

If investment and new jobs are concentrated in already successful core regions, poorer peripheral regions benefit less. Industrialisation can therefore increase national wealth while widening the development gap within India.

Globalisation is the process through which countries become increasingly connected and dependent on one another. These connections involve goods, services, investment, people and information. For example, a company can organise production in one country and sell its products in others.