Archive for August, 2008
Chilli on my plate…in my dessert too
Business Standard
Despite its seemingly American origins, India’s spicy palate has been quite the nesting place for it, and we find the spice route takes us farther than the kitchen. Bring the chilli out to the bar, we say, and to the bakery, if you will and oh, if it gets too hot to handle, take [...]
India’s Uflex selects Mexico for its US$108 mln polyester film project
Plastemart
Uflex, India’s packaging producer has selected Mexico for installation of its US$108 mln polyester film project. The company said that the 125,000 tpa flexible plastics film plant will be erected in Altamira, located in northeastern Mexico’s Tamaulipas state. The polyesters film projects will be put into execution in multiple phases.
Bargain Wine and the Big Mac Index
Wine Economics:
The McWine Index
Wine prices in the U.S. appear to be heading up – what’s a bargain-seeking shopper to do? That’s the question I was asked by the wine and spirits editor of a major cooking magazine. The answer is to try to make the exchange rate work for you, not against [...]
Indians champs at globetrotting
Outbound travel:The Economic Times
Outbound travel from India is bucking the trend even as inflation and slowdown coupled with increasing airfares is adversely affecting domestic traffic and corporate travel.
Not only have outbound numbers grown from India, especially on short-haul routes, average spend of travellers is also going strong, as per figures for January-July period shared by [...]
Brazilian Minister Acknowledges Asymmetries in Mercosur
– Business – redOrbit
interview with Minister Marco Aurelio Garcia, special adviser to the Brazilian President’s Office on international affairs,
[Agencia Brasil] Thanks to the strengthening of the Brazilian economy and currency, our firms are expanding their business into the South American countries and expanding their industries into new markets. How do you view that [...]
High input costs could cause recession: Ratan Tata
Business Standard
Iron ore prices have increased by 85 per cent in the last year, while coking coal prices rose 200 per cent.
The global steel industry also faced pressure on their margins from the rise in costs, but these increases were absorbed by the market through steel price hikes, said Tata at the annual general [...]
Raising Water Productivity
Earth Policy Institute: Sustainablog
With water shortages emerging as a constraint on food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity during the last half of the twentieth century. Worldwide, average irrigation water productivity is now roughly 1 kilogram of grain per ton of [...]
The New Paternalism
Nudge is an insightful entertaining read. I hope more policy-makers pay heed. For some reason reminded me of the Keynes quote “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”ChronicleReview.com
What does a peculiar pattern on the road have to do with fixing the [...]
The world’s best investment: Vitamins for undernourished children
Some ideas in case you want to work on projects that change the world. Arrived at after a cost-benefit analysis.Copenhagen Consensus Center – CCC Home Page
Over two years, more than 50 economists have worked to find the best solutions to ten of the world’s biggest challenges. During the last week of May, an expert panel [...]
Caterpillar Inc. Funds Viterbi ‘Print-a-House’ Contour Crafting Technology
Wonder what the error message would read like “Machine is out of concrete. Your house could not be printed.” Next Big Future:
Caterpillar, the world’s largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is starting to support research on the “Contour Crafting” automated construction system that its creator believes will one day be able to build full-scale houses [...]
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