Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday Asia is the ray of hope for global economic recovery.   Addressing the “Advancing Asia Conference” along with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde here today, the Prime Minister said, “India has a special place in Asia. It has historically contributed to Asia in several ways.”   “India has dispelled the myth that democracy and rapid economic growth cannot go together, the […]

If you pay attention to what the various players in tech are reading, you may have seen some of them talking about the book The Accidental Superpower. I heard about the book from Mark Suster and shortly after reading it myself, saw Auren Hoffman posting about it. If you haven’t read it, it generally ignores the common discussions of education, computer technology, and partisan political dysfunction as they relate to […]

While still at the top of the GP growth table, the Chinese economy seems to be on a long-term traverse from a trajectory with extremely high growth rates to one where growth is more moderate. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Chinese GDP growth, year-on-year, which had fallen from 8.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, to 7.6 per cent in the second and 7.4 per […]