India Economy

Getting To Know India's New Collectors

Posted 02.22.2012

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Newly keen on art as investment, Indian collectors are coming out of the woodwork to invigorate the country's previously dormant contemporary art scen...

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India Feels the BRIC-bats

Urmila Venugopalan | Posted 04.01.2012

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The venality, equivocation and change-aversion of India's leaders could jeopardize the country's long-term economic prospects and prevent it from realizing its ambition to become a 21st century global power.

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Is India's Caste System Headed For Change?

AP | TIM SULLIVAN | Posted 02.21.2012

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AGRA, India — As far back as he can remember, people told Hari Kishan Pippal that he was unclean, with a filthiness that had tainted his family ...

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Indian Shopkeepers On Massive Strike

AP | Posted 01.31.2012

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NEW DELHI -- Shops around India closed their doors Thursday in a strike called to protest a new policy to allow big-box retailers into the country. O...

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India's Courage Deficit

Daniel Wagner | Posted 01.28.2012

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Many in the West may not realize it, but India is in the middle of what is shaping up to be a severe economic crisis.

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India: Linked or De-linked From the Global Economy?

Anoop Singh | Posted 12.27.2011

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What does the more somber darker global outlook mean for India? And exactly what policies are needed?

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Indian Untouchables Become Millionaires

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar | Posted 11.01.2011

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The poorest, lowest of all Hindu castes -- once called untouchables and now called dalits (meaning the oppressed) -- have started spawning millionaires.

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America's Relationship with India: A Source of Security in Times of Turmoil

Rajeev Sharma | Posted 06.01.2011

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Imagine a country that declares its independence from Great Britain, forges democracy from diversity, enjoys robust economic growth, and emerges as a world power. You've just described the United States -- and modern India.

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India's Mood Darkens As Corruption Undermines Nation's Self-Confidence

Washington Post | Simon Denyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW DELHI - Just a few months ago, India was preening itself in the global spotlight. World leaders were queuing up to visit, and President Obama famo...

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China and India's Battle for Influence in Asia

Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent signing of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between India and Japan will soon make each country the other's largest trading partner. And both remain concerned about the rising power and influence of China.

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Beyond the G20: A World We Can Believe in

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the rich man's club of nations expanded from the G7 to the G20, a new element was added. Instead of being about money and trade, the G20 is about something else: aspiration.

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U.S. Call Centers Wokers Now As Cheap To Hire As Their Indian Counterparts

ft.com | James Lamont and Joe Leahy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country's largest business process outs...

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IMF Predicts Global Econony Will Grow More Than 4% This Year Thanks To China And India

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that the global economy, after enduring a crippling recession, should see better-tha...

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Economics for a New Century

Ann Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. needs to get religion in the form of a new economic ideology to realign our priorities.

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India Aims To Become World's Fastest Growing Economy, Overtake China

AP | ERIKA KINETZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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MUMBAI, India — Just how fast can India grow? Ask Manal Farooq, who can't make gloves quickly enough. "We are facing a major problem," said Far...

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India's Economic Growth Accelerates To 6.1 Percent

AP | ERIKA KINETZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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MUMBAI, India — India's economy picked up pace in the latest quarter as government spending helped to overcome the worst of the global downturn ...

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Indian Businesses Forced To Focus On Country's Poor Due To Economic Crisis

GlobalPost | Jason Overdorf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jason Overdorf I GlobalPost NEW DELHI -- In India, the economic crisis may actually be good news. During the salad days of the past decade, India'...

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Young Science USA

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

If the future of our nation is not continually renewed by young Americans well supported in their advanced scientific research, we likely will have a very dim future indeed.

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Decline Can Make Britain a Better Country

Alex Higgins | Posted 05.25.2011

There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for attempting to govern other parts of the world by force, let alone envy of the global superpower.

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India's Poorest State Defies Economic Slump

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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This country's path out of the global economic turmoil may start here, among a community of outcastes who dine on rats. In Bihar, India's poorest and...

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Downturn Begins To Hit Emerging Economies

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 05.25.2011

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Developing countries including China and India, where red-hot growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent years, are sho...

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