Archive for July 23rd, 2008
Political experiences in Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia
Image via Wikipedia Canadian Dimension Blog In Latin America, if we exclude Cuba, we can point to three general categories of governments. First, the governments of the right, the allies of Washington, that play an active role in the region and occupy a strategic position: these are the governments of Álvaro Uribe in Colombia, Alan [...]
Backing BRICS: Market meltdown exposes structural strengths
Image via Wikipedia The Australian. “We’re talking about the whole BRIC story, the $27trillion that’s going to be spent on infrastructure in the emerging world over the next 10 years, largely funded by internally generated revenues — that’s a fact,” Sosa says. “It’s not going to stop because we’re having a bit of a housing [...]
U.S. offers farm subsidy cut but is asked for more
EcoDiario.es. “My immediate response is it doesn’t pass the ‘laughtest’,” a senior Indian official told Reuters. Brazil said it wanted deeper cuts. “This is only the secondday of the talks here, so we imagine there is room formanoeuvre to reduce them further,” a Brazilian diplomat said. Brazil and India are key to the negotiations because [...]
Brazil boom breeds new generation of millionaires
Image via Wikipedia Reuters. By the time he was 29, Calderaro was worth well over a million reais ($630,000) thanks to big bets on steel, mining and banking stocks just as Brazil’s economy was taking off after decades of lackluster growth. Since then, his fortune has swelled even more, cementing his status as a full-fledged [...]
Satyam to set up centres in South America
Image via Wikipedia Business Standard IT major, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, plans to set up IT and BPO development centers in Mexico and Chile or Uruguay shortly, a top company official said. After opening IT and BPO development centres in Egypt, Brazil and a second center in Australia, we are now looking at setting up [...]
California fuel consumption exceeds that of India
A little dated but compelling visualization that brings to life the fact that California uses more fuel than India. For the US as a whole it is 136 billion gallons. Given that the population of California is about 35 million, and India’s 1.1 billion – 1 Californian’s fuel consumption exceeds that of 30 Indians! Sadly, [...]
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