11 Numbers Showing India Has A Long Way to Go To Become The Next China
Read Here – The Wall Street Journal 5 Gaps That Define India-China Relationship
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Apple Could Make Money By Bailing Out Greece
That Apple should buy Greece with all the useless cash it has on hand is just a joke that won’t go away. Yet it’s true that, if big American corporations and European politicians had any imagination, they could probably engineer a bailout for the nearly bankrupt country on terms that would benefit everyone. Read Here – Bloomberg
The Great Eastern Force
If I were to write about a new power rising in the East, one whose population of 633 million is the third largest in the world after China and India, and 100 million more than either the European Union or the whole of North America, you might expect to have heard quite a lot about […]
A Hard Choice
Russia doesn’t just need petroleum to fuel its tanks and planes, but to pay for them as well. Because oil and gas revenues comprise half the federal budget, defense spending is tethered to energy prices. Read Here – Moscow Times
Make In India: Is It A Battle With China?
In an attempt to build India’s industrial base nationwide, (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi is pushing the Make in India campaign, designed to attract foreign investment by highlighting the ongoing changes. How does the effort all stack up agains China? Read Here – Businessweek
Here’s What’s At Stake For The United States In Asia
Often overlooked in the tumult of Washington’s foreign policy debates is the remarkable consistency of U.S. foreign and trade policies over time. This is due to one immutable factor: American national interests. When U.S. policy moves away from our national interest, not only does it cease to serve its primary purpose, but it becomes unstable […]
Oh Ho, Africa Is Bigger Than You Thought…
As African nations recalculate gross domestic product to include previously unaccounted-for economic activity, it is evident that the size of the continent’s economy is much larger than what has been largely believed. Read Here – Businessweek
That Loud, Hissing Sound…
Expectations that India’s prime minister would revolutionize a troubled economy overnight were wildly overblown. But three months on, even some Modi skeptics may be wondering if they have been too easy on the great modernizer from Gujarat. Since taking office, Modi has scuttled a global trade deal, sidestepped much-needed subsidy cuts, and refrained from letting […]
It’s A 7.5 Percent Bummer, Folks, No More
China’s economy grew 7.7 percent in 2013, overshooting the official target of 7.5 percent, But a shaky start this year, as shown in soft manufacturing activity, has put the focus on how the government will pace and sequence its overhauls while guaranteeing solid growth amid the world’s fragile recovery. Economic growth predicted for 2014 at […]
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