Does it matter if the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization ends in failure? The mini-Ministerial round of talks at Geneva missed its June 30 deadline, and no new date or agenda has been set. The lack of seriousness […]
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Anti-globalisers complain that multinationals are bigger than the GDP of some countries. Now, suddenly, non-profit foundations are becoming larger than many MNCs. Two of the richest men in the world, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway,
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Jawaharlal Nehru wrote his seminal history, The Discovery of India, during the British Raj. But now we have a very different Discovery of India by the western media. Time magazine has a cover story on India in its US edition
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Jawaharlal Nehru wrote his seminal history, The Discovery of India, during the British Raj. But now we have a very different Discovery of India by the western media. Time magazine has a cover story on India in its US edition
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One of the traditional arguments for opening up capital markets is that it facilitates diversification of stock portfolios. Instead of keeping all their investments in just the national market, investors can buy stocks, bonds and mutual funds across the world,
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One of the traditional arguments for opening up capital markets is that it facilitates diversification of stock portfolios. Instead of keeping all their investments in just the national market, investors can buy stocks, bonds and mutual funds across the world,
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It\’s the East India Company in reverse. Parts of Europe are in a funk about an “Indian invasion” says The Economist, the British financial magazine. Lakshmi Mittal has become the biggest steel producer in the world through a series of
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IThe Indo-US nuclear deal is facing an uphill struggle in the US Congress. US hawks are paranoid about Iran going nuclear, and argue that relaxing the rules for India will simply encourage Iran . Some US legislators want to attach
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India leads the world in natural disasters. In the last two decades, it has got the most foreign aid for natural disaster relief and rehabilitation. It has obtained 43 such loans from the World Bank alone, well ahead of China
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Economics assumes that human beings are rational. But human reactions to stock market movements are utterly irrational. When markets rise, everybody cheers. When markets crash—as has been the case for two weeks—everybody moans. A hunt for culprits often ensues. No
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