Tag: FDI

From the power corridors of governance to sprawling airports to packed trains to crowded bus stops to late-afternoon village gatherings to cocktail parties to noisy multiplexes to glass offices to chaotic stock markets to roadside juice centres to shopping malls to regressive sweatshops to dirty jails to cacophonic newsrooms to busy courthouses to ration queues to parents’ huddles in schools to Covid vaccination centres to sports stadiums to the quiet privacy of your drawing room – the Great Indian Religion Debate has invaded everything under the hot Indian summer sun.
US Senator Elizabeth Warren called for breaking up Amazon Inc and Indian retailers demanded a government probe of the company after a Reuters investigation showed the e-commerce giant had copied products and rigged search results in India.
How foreign funds are the new East India Company that are colonising successful Indian startups.
Months after the cyberattack at Kudankulam where India's Thorium research was targeted, the Indian government is contemplating to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in nuclear power area. The decision, likely to be considered by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO),...
We are opening the doors that guard our farmers’ agricultural produce against exploitation. The RCEP agreement, if implemented, will bypass the WTO and offload all the excess agricultural produce from China into the Indian markets freely. Shifting our balance...
India US Trade War

India US Trade War

According to leaked information of a high-level meeting, the United States and India's failure to reach a long-expected trade deal on Sept. 24 has sparked fears of a full-fledged India US trade war. Failed Negotiations On Sept. 24, U.S. Trade Representative...
In the late 90s secret meetings took place in London where the blueprint for the ‘development’ of an entire Indian state was envisioned. Called Vision 2020, the scheme was the brainchild of an American consultancy firm born out of...
At least now, post demonetization, do we have any fresh estimates of the Black Money in the country, or its rate of generation? This would have been a very interesting study to do. Why haven’t we seen it done? Around...
One of the leading puzzles related to cross border flow of investment is the phenomenon of ‘Round Tripping'. Here, money from a country (eg. India) flows to a foreign country (Mauritius) and comes back as foreign direct investment to...
In the first part of this Global War On Cash Series we saw how Ronald Reagan’s economic strategies born of the Cold War to counter Soviet expansion and disrupt it’s economy paved the way for the Financial Crisis of...