Wikipedia:Peer review/Economy of India/archive1

Economy of India
We would like to know if the this article has covered all aspects of the Indian economy. Suggestions, critique and help will be most welcome. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  17:12, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

On the whole the article looks great, it's well written and srtuctured. But, I don't like the numbered list in the begining of the history section. I think the see also interspersed throughout the sections should be added to the table of topics, or listed as mainarticle where appropriate, they inhibit the flow a bit. There is no good mention of Indias balance of payments situation, is it a net exporter or importer- this could go in the table and/or the text, also what is the national/foreign debt of India, for example is India still servicing loans from development organisations like the IMF. The notes should probably just be listed numerically, breaking them into sections makes them a bit harder to follow.--nixie 10:50, 10 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the comments. I'll sort out the see also and the references. I agree it looks a little untidy. We'll try and cover all your suggested topics. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:01, August 10, 2005 (UTC)


 * We have a section on balance of payments, which covers both foreign aid and import/export question. Does that cover what you had in mind? We will fix the references at the end. pamri 06:14, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * The section you have added is exactly what I had in mind.--nixie 06:17, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


 * We have used inotes and spruced up the see alsos. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  20:07, August 12, 2005 (UTC)


 * It's looking great, definately the best article of this type in Wikipedia. One things that could still be added to the determinants (is this the best name for this heading?) section is a paragraph or two about human capital- which could be created by moving the demographics section up from where it is (I don't think the demographics section fits well where it is placed, demographics isn't a socio-economic issue) and additng a bit about the actual literacy rate and the average level of education. One last thing that could be worked on is the image captions, lots of articles are guilty of having great images that lack descriptive captions. For example what is actually measued by the Index of Corruption, what does the Human Development Index measure, etc; also what is actually being measured in the argicultural output composition graph, tonnage?, $ in the domesitc economy?, composition of exports? both the caption and the image page don't tell me what this graph is actually showing.--nixie 07:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comments. They have really improved the article. We have renamed the sections, rewrote captions and added more stuff. We have covered mostly the economic impact of demographics and the rest is covered in detail in the demographics article. I hope that satisfies you. pamri 06:21, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

I think we should put some of the images and tables on the left because there are way too many sitting on the right-hand side. &mdash; Stevey7788 (talk) 23:16, 10 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Is there any particular reason? Putting some on the left and some on the right may hinder the flow of the text. Presently, despite the large no. of images, you can ignore the images and just focus on the text. pamri 06:14, August 11, 2005 (UTC)