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Atanu Dey-Vinod Khosla Marshall Plan

Posted on Sunday, Jan 28th

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

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 24th

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

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World in Figures II

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 24th

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.

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Nokia in India

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 23rd

Market Share of the handset market: 79% 4 Major Segments: Live – New Users Connect – More evolved users who look for more functionality, features and connectivity. Accordingly, phones in this segment would have GPRS, camera and music capabilities. Achieve – Enterprise users who need to have business functionalities in their phones. Explore – High

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Norwest’s India Strategy

Posted on Monday, Jan 22nd

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is scouting for buyouts in the Indian IT space, looking to invest $300 million in India over the next three years. NVP is targeting companies in the range of $25-30 million operating in the services and product development space. NVP currently has invested $50 million in four IT companies in India

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World in Figures

Posted on Sunday, Jan 21st

The Economist sent out its 2007 Pocket edition of the World in Figures book. It is always interesting to look at the world issues with statistical data. Here’s an interesting set – The largest countries (‘000 Sq Km) in the world are: 1. Russia 17,075 2. Canada 9,971 3. China 9,561 4. United States 9,373

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e-Tickets in India

Posted on Sunday, Jan 21st

Economic Times reports: “The growth in e-ticketing during 2006 over the previous year has been perhaps the highest in the world. According to industry data, shared exclusively with SundayET by Amadeus, a travel IT supplier which tracks the trend on a monthly basis, e-ticket penetration grew from a measly 10% in 2005 to 65% in

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Electronics Forecasts for India

Posted on Saturday, Jan 13th

According to a study by Frost and Sullivan, India is the fastest growing market for electronic products in the world with consumption expected to grow to $363 billion by 2015 from $28 billion in 2005. India will account for 11% of the global electronics market by 2015, compared to 1.8% in 2005. India will also

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