摘要：India, the second most populated country in t he world, with about 1.04 billion people, is home to one-sixth of humanity. It has also become one of the world's new economic giants. Since 1980s and between 1990 and 2002, the Indian economy grew at 5.9% annually, compared with t he average 2.8% for the world overall. The Economic Intellige nce Unit estimates that India's average annual real GDP growth rate will remain at this lofty level for the 25 years between 2005 and 2030. The World Bank Report put India's annual GDP growth from 1990 to1999 at 6.1% - a rate it expects will increase to 15% in 2012. The major contributor to the striking performance is India's thriving service sector, led by information technology (IT). This sector's expans ion has far outstripped those of agriculture and industry. Services now account for more than half of India's GDP. India's people are justly proud of the rapid development in the IT sector, where the country has now assumed 30% share of the worldwide software export market. Almost 180 of the Fortune 500 companies were outsourcing to India by mid-1990s. Among those firms that have set research and development facilities in India or have tied up with the Indian companies or academic and research institutions are such famous names as Oracle. Pentafour, SAP, Philips, Yahoo, Google, IBM, HP, Intel, Microsoft etc. India is estimated to have an impressive 65% share of the market in information technology-enabled services, or offshore IT. Moreover, there remains an enormous potential for further growth in these markets
