The reasons for Germany's heightened interest in the world's most populous country (India has about 1.45 billion people) are both economic and geopolitical: According to a prognosis from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , the Indian economy will grow significantly more than China's this year. Germany, meanwhile, has been stuck in recession for almost three years.
Germany is also desperately looking for skilled workers — and is finding more and more of them in India. Meanwhile, Indians have become the largest group of foreign students at German universities.
