ABSTRACT
India and Brazil are both developing countries, that is, former colonies that were not industrialized until the mid-20th century. Both are vibrant democracies, with rough and tumble politics based on many parties. Their populations are big: India has more than a billion people and Brazil has nearly 200 million. Many people are poor. Both have free markets, with a background of socialism, that is, government ownership of major industries, now largely abandoned. Their economies are big: $4.1 trillion for India and $2.2 trillion for Brazil. Pollution has accompanied the industrial development. Finally, both have remote regions of natural beauty and wildness.
