A new official United States report has listed India as the third most powerful nation in the world after the U.S. and China and the fourth most powerful bloc after the United States.
“The new global power line-up for 2010 also predicted that New Delhi's clout in the world will further rise by 2025,” as per ‘Global Governance 2025,' jointly issued by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) of the U.S. and the European Union's Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).
The report — quoting the views of a host of experts from Brazil, Russia, India and China and depicting fictionalised scenarios — points to what could happen over the next 25 years in terms of global governance.
U.S. on top of list
The U.S. tops the list of powerful countries/regions in 2010, accounting for nearly 22 per cent of the global power. China is second, along with European Union at 16 per cent and India is placed third at eight per cent. Japan, Russia and Brazil follow India with less than five per cent each.
According to the International Futures model, the power of the U.S., the E.U., Japan and Russia will decline by 2025, while that of China, India and Brazil will increase, even though there will be no change in this listing.
The U.S. will still remain the most powerful country in 2025, but it will have a little over 18 per cent of the global power. China will closely follow the U.S. with 16 per cent, EU with 14 per cent and India with 10 per cent.
Keywords: World power, global governance
First make some research before giving judgements. Where the hell did u get that 75% poverty?? the average per capita of india is $3000. So are u saying 1/4 of a nation is living @ over 12000$? Dude that in itself would be the highest for any nation in the world with US n luxembourg aside??. First get your facts right. Anyways, it not about individual wealth here, cause money can give u no political status. After all entire Europe despite being wealthier are US slaves. It depends on your influence on yourself and over other nations. India is a country which shares its border with 7 countries. The only region which faces tension is the one which is threatened by Pakistani militants. Other than that all other nations but for China are with India's influence. China can't even protect its own regions while the problems are its own with no external influence in 3 regions. (P.S. 3 of them are the largest regions of china). All indian regions are its integral part.
Powerful India is it a joke....the country where 75% of people live below $2 a day, e.t.c...how can that country be called powerful? Democracy has not benefited India as it was supposed to. I think Chinese communism is thousand times better that the democracy we have in India. See where China stands and where it stood in 1948. India stands nowhere near China and comparing it with developed countries is foolishness...
Just imagine Indians where discrimination is inhabited and the poor are dying like fowl and they are proud to be called third most powerful nation in the world.
Having originated from Indian stock I am glad to hear about what others say of India.
However, I think Indians need discipline with regard to time,high standard of cleanliness ands hygiene, competetive spirit translated into action,forethought and advanced planning for any eventuality in her borders,boldness to talk of INDIAN subcontinent and Prehistoric and Hindu and Buddhist and Moslem and Christian culture,and not a vague S.Asia, national defence training for everyone (as in China), harsh punishment for sedition, communal divisions, corruption, religious bigotry and above all harsh penalty also for male dominance and ill treatmnet of women and sharing of the wealth among the poor and needy with a social conscience.
Another upcoming danger is - if we do not arrest the rampant corruption, India's poor will be up in arms with its own system, which is what we need to be worried about. Look at the CWG - shame game :-(
Why this obsession with foreign reports of our power? We can't even organize games. Let's not pretend to be powerful.
Before we all fall into a self-congratulatory mood - all these forecasts of futurologists will have to be taken with a pinch (or, perhaps, buckets) of salt. In the 1960's the Hudson Institute think tank, headed by the late Herman Kahn predicted that Nippon would race ahead of the USA! It has not quite turned out to be coterminous with the projections.
India can be a powerful nation in the world only if corruption, and inequality between rich and the poor diminishes. These reports by U.S. and other International agencies are just to persuade the government, without studying the actual facts, to encourage liberalisation policies.
Stop patting ourselves on the back about being one of the most powerful in the nation. First we need to work on not being the country with the most poor people in the world and also work on not being the most corrupt country in the world.
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