A posição da Índia na economia-mundo capitalista e o desenvolvimento da indústria de software nacional: a gaiola de ouro

This article aims to investigate how India's structural position in the capitalist World-Economy has conditioned the development of the national software industry. Through bibliographic review and analysis of economic indicators, we show the relationship between systemic conditions and the development of the Indian software industry. It was identified that India initially made efforts to equate its development in hardware and software with that of central states. However, pressures for economic liberalization and the need to remedy the persistent deficit in the balance of payments have led India to invest in a subordinate insertion in the international software industry.