Rural growth picking up slack as industrial sector cools
(NEWSER) - The new, high-tech India enjoyed a long boom, but the nation's path out of the global slowdown may lie with the legions of poor in old, rural India, the Wall Street Journal reports. The 700 million people who live in India's hinterland are still among the poorest people on the planet, but living standards are slowly rising, helping pick up the slack as urban growth slows. More»
