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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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development
Small Car Boom Spells Urban Doom
by Satish Dey, Guest Author India is basking in the sunshine of its robust economic growth and the inevitable consumerism it has spurred by way of higher spending and improved lifestyles for its citizens. A car — the ubiquitous status symbol delineating the rich from the poor — is expectedly much in demand. The nation’s
Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 2)
To understand the impact of ERI, I spent some time asking HP about the technical details and their business / market trend impact. As we proceed in the interview, I think it is important to point out how HP has made excellent use of timing with ERI. The stars all seem to have aligned finally,
Need Product Companies for India’s Growth
By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author I insist on high tech product companies for India. No matter what we do with our IT-ITES sector, we will not scale dramatically to be able to become a true economic power. The GDP of India in 2005 is $720B of which the IT-ITES sector contributes less than 3.2% (it
Timeless!
It has always irritated me endlessly – the quintessential Indian lack of respect for other people’s time, better, time in general! Here is Guest Author Satish Dey’s article: Let’s Have More Watches To Make Up Lost Time. Modern life demands that man should be strapped to a time-machine. Can you imagine managing your life without
Atanu Dey-Vinod Khosla Marshall Plan
By Atanu Dey, Guest Author India’s economic growth depends critically on the development of its 700-million strong rural population living in 600,000 villages. The challenge is to manage their transition from a village-centric agricultural-based economy to a city-centric non-agricultural economy urgently.
Davos: India
The World Bank has prepared a special section online with useful information about India related to the World Economic Forum in Davos, underway this week. The theme of Davos this year is “The Shifting Power Equation.” We have organized our resources around the subthemes of the meeting: Economics: New drivers | Geopolitics: The Need for
World in Figures II
As I pondered the question of rebalancing the population of Canada, I looked up their unemployment rate: 7.8% in 2004. GDP? $978 Billion. So let’s look at the GDP statistics ($ Billion): 1. United States 11,711.8 2. Japan 4,622.8 3. Germany 2,740.6 4. UK 2,124.4 5. France 2,046.6 6. China 1,931.7 7. Italy 1,677.8 8.
Stop Distracting Steve Jobs
After Personal Computing, Film, Music, Steve Jobs is now tackling the Cellular Phone business, and with such aplomb, that one wonders why the SEC and the media would not simply leave him alone to do his thing … work his magic, wave his wand, think, feel, play … whatever it is that gives him the
