Tag: India
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In India, rich and poor line up for $2,000 Nano
Christian Science Monitor: In India, rich and poor line up for $2,000 Nano Ten months after India's $2,000 Nano was launched, carmaker Tata has sold more than 200,000 vehicles. Months after buying the shiny silver car, farmer Satish Kumar still keeps the plastic wrap on the seats. Most days, his Tata Nano – his first…
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Fighting poverty in emerging markets
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Economist: Fighting poverty in emerging markets Lessons from Brazil, China and India … Between them, Brazil, China and India account for half the world’s poorest people and an even bigger share of those who have escaped poverty. In 1981, 84% of China’s population was below the poverty line of $1.25 a day (in 2005 prices);…
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India’s new antipoverty measure: national ID card
Christian Science Monitor: India's new antipoverty measure: national ID card The card's introduction, one of the largest IT projects in the world, will eliminate a patchwork of local IDs and is meant to improve the delivery of social services to the poor. New Delhi – Rasmu is happy she moved to New Delhi, where she…
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India listens after a child bride says ‘I won’t.’
Christian Science Monitor: India listens after a child bride says 'I won't.' Bararola, India – When Rekha Kalinda was nearing age 12, her parents told her they were planning to marry her off. Rekha's response would reverberate all the way up to the president of India: "No." Nearly half of all Indian females get married…
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India’s Tata rolls out world’s cheapest car
Yahoo!: India's Tata rolls out world's cheapest car MUMBAI (AFP) – India's Tata Motors on Monday launched the world's cheapest car, the Nano, hoping to revolutionise travel for millions and buck a slump in auto sales caused by the global economic crisis. Company boss Ratan Tata said the no-frills vehicle, slated to cost just 100,000…
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What’s holding India back?
The Economist: What's holding India back? Failure to reform a bloated civil service is putting the country's huge economic achievements at risk. “THE tiger is under grave threat,” India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, intoned at one point in his budget speech on February 29th. He was referring to the stripy animals that prowl the country…
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India’s Christians: The cross they bear
The Economist: India's Christians: The cross they bear Politics fuels religious violence. THE blackened shell of a burnt car lies in the yard of Radha Bai's farm in this bucolic village of whitewashed houses and unhurried bullock carts in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. On January 16th, as she prayed with a large group…
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Development not stopping hunger, more than 400 million Indians malnourished
AsiaNews: Development not stopping hunger, more than 400 million Indians malnourished The International Food Policy Research Institute shows that 40 per cent of the world’s underweight children under five live in India. Add disadvantaged groups like the poor and women who have a hard time feeding themselves and you get 400 million people. Priests and…
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India Rising
India Rising is an article in the most recent edition of Newsweek. Bush is headed there this week. While China's rise is already here and palpable—it has grown at almost 10 percent since 1980—India's is still more a tale of the future, but a future that is coming into sharp focus. A much-cited 2003 study…
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The great Indian hope trick
The great Indian hope trick is a good article in the Economist about US and India relations. Bush is scheduled to visit India next month.