Commentary: Will a snack do for India what software can't? (Bloomberg news via IHT)

A profile of Lijjat, the papad maker, which has a $66 million global market. Lijjat hires only women and helps them to be self-sufficient. According to the article, Lijjat is doing for India what the booming software industry can't: provide the tools of economic improvement to those without formal education.

It also mentions Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation as another success story. It has helped turn a milk-importing nation into the world's biggest dairy producer. The cooperative processes and markets more than five million kilograms of milk it sources from more than two million farmers each day.