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If you are expected to do sophisticated work, you should already be capable of doing your own research.

Still, you should note

1. The general inefficiency of Indian farming with far too many farms that are too small and too poor to use the best farming methods.

2. The general inefficiency of workers in underdeveloped countries, usually due to poor management.

http://www.stanford.edu/~axl/aerpp10.pdf

This is true of India too.

http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/16658.html

3. Not only is the level of corruption in India high,

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/world/asia/scand...

it is the wrong kind of corruption.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bhagwa...

4. In general, when you have a ruling class, they don't want development and actively hinder it.

http://www.macroresilience.com/2010/12/15/the-diff...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_rate_of_growth

http://www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads...

http://whynationsfail.com/summary/

As for Australia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

And, of course, the CIA Factbook pages for the countries:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...

and the Wikipedia articles