Geoterms
Geographic Setting
Low Wages
English Speakers
Skilled Workers
100
The main hub of IT work in India is in the city of _____.
What is Banglaore?
100
India is one the world's _____ countries. Many of its people live on less than $1 a day.
What is poorest?
100
Indians want IT jobs because the _____ and _____ are good.
What is pay and work conditions?
100
US companies want Indian workers because many of them speak good _____.
What is English?
100
About 350 million Indians are _____. They can't read or write.
What is illiterate?
200
An area that uses the same clock time.
What is a time zone?
200
India's leaders are elected by the people, making it the world's largest _____.
What is democracy?
200
One of the reasons that wages are so low in India is because the cost of _____ is very low.
What is living?
200
The reason that many Indians speak English is due to the fact that _____ once owned India.
What is England?
200
Many Indians cannot go to school because their families are too _____.
What is poor?
300
To hire someone outside a company to do work that was once done inside the company.
What is outsource?
300
75% of all Indians practice this religion Hinduism. What do most of the other 25% practice?
300
One of the reasons that wages are low in India is because there are so many people _____ for jobs.
What is competing?
300
Some Indians watch American television in order to learn American _____.
What are accents?
300
Give a reason why India's college education system is so good.
What is the amount of money they spend yearly on education, especially in the areas of science, math, technology, and engineering?
400
The use of technology to move, record, and process information is called _____.
What is information technology?
400
India's social class system.
What is the caste system?
400
Due to the IT boom, young women in India have more _____ opportunities.
What is job?
400
One of the effects of the IT boom in India is that streets are very _____. Auto-rickshaw drivers have difficulty transporting their passengers.
What is crowded?
400
The IT boom has allowed for some business owners to become _____.
What are billionaires?
500
The ability of one country to produce a good or provide a service at a lower cost or more effectively than another country is called _____.
What is comparative advantage?
500
With a population of over _____ billion, India is the world's _____ largest country.
What is one and 2nd?
500
Because of the money they make working IT jobs, young Indians have more _____. They are able to live with friends and date whom they choose.
What is independence?
500
The IT boom in India has led to more jobs for everyone. Name one kind of non-IT job that is booming.
What are construction workers, janitors, security guards and/or taxi drivers?
500
A comparative advantage that attracts foreign companies to the US is _____.
What is highly educated workers?