Archive for September, 2008
Asia-Latin Trade Boom
Latin Business Chronicle
With the U.S. economy continuing to show weak results, Latin America is increasingly betting on Asia. Latin American exporters have found eager markets in countries like China, Japan and India, while Asian companies, in turn, are boosting their exports to Latin America.
“The growth of Asia will drive the business with Latin America,” [...]
Simon Bolivar’s Freedom Fight
Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
In 1805, a 21-year-old South American nobleman, Simon Bolivar, traveled through Europe, drowning his sorrows over the death of his wife.
Arriving in Milan with his former tutor, Simon Rodriguez, to see the coronation of Napoleon as king of Italy, Bolivar was repelled by the power-hungry man he had once admired. He [...]
‘Global turmoil to have minimal impact on India’
Unlike SE Asia’s export-led model of growth, India follows a domestic demand-driven growth strategy that is much more insulated from a prolonged U.S. or European economic downturn.Business-The Times of India
Despite financial crisis in the US market, India would continue to grow at high rate of 8% to 9% in the next couple of years. Chief [...]
Booz, Parthenon set up consultancies in India
The Economic Times
While Booz will initially start operations with a dozen consultants, the plan is to expand to 100 people in a couple of years. Booz, as part of its global restructuring exercise, had moved out of India in 2000.
Things are a lot different today. “Global companies are using the Indian model in various businesses. [...]
India’s sugar mills favour duty-free raws imports
Reuters
Indian mills should be allowed to import raw sugar duty-free against a commitment to export the refined commodity as domestic output is expected to fall sharply, a leading industry body said on Monday.
India, the world’s biggest producer of the sweetener after Brazil, allowed mills to import raw sugar free of duty in 2005 on the [...]
Leading 200 Indian companies see stable cash flows in economic slowdown
The Hindu Business Line
Has economic slowdown taken a toll on the cash churned out by India’s leading companies? Are more companies reporting negative cash flows as a result of longer working capital cycles?
An analysis of the latest annual reports for the BSE 200 companies (representing 84 per cent of overall market capitalisation) reveals no [...]
Transportation Costs Are Stunting Exports in Brazil and LatAm
Over long distances, hauling freight by rail is the most economical option. Private companies in LatAm need to put building and upgrading rail lines to ports on the governmental agenda. Or do it themselves in conjunction with overseas investment partners where possible.
Brazil – Brazzil Mag
Latin American exports’ growth depends more on lower transport costs [...]
Health Care Innovation in India
Strategy and Business
[M]ore than 490 million people (about 70 percent of the Indian population) live in rural and semi-urban areas. They are difficult to reach, especially in a country where doctors are scarce (the ratio of physicians to total population is less than one per 100,000 people, compared with about one per 160 in the [...]
Honda will set up R&D centre for cars in India
Business-The Times of India
In a pointer to the growing stature of the Indian car market globally, Japan’s Honda Motor Co has decided to set up a research and development (R&D) centre for cars in the country to understand the requirements of the market better. Globally, this would be the one of the seven R&D centres [...]
iSoft India gives shape to world’s largest health project
The Economic Times
Healthcare software provider iSoft on Thursday said that its Indian R&D team is developing a solution what it described as the world’s largest civilian IT healthcare project.
The Lorenzo software application, which will link nearly two-thirds of the hospitals in the United Kingdom, will also be launched in Europe, Australia and Germany in November, [...]
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