text: why there is poverty in india.?   relatively speaking, india has very few natural resources with which they can trade. for example, they have no oil or valuable minerals. they have way too many people in a very concentrated spot. fortunately, the internet came along and is beginning to harvest their greatest resource - the intelligence of their people. india has simply had very little infastructure and never had the capital it needs to build it. ironically, this lack of infstrutcure may now be an advantage because they can build everythiing from the ground up while learning from the mistakes of others. i think that in the end, india will be the new super power. but, in the meantime, know that it's one thing to turn around the economy of 250 million people who have plenty of resources... it's another to turn around the economy of 1.3 billion with no natural resources.