Archive for September 2nd, 2008
Cultural Differences – Silence in Conversations
Today I was speaking to an Argentine business associate and he shared with me some frustrations. He was telling me how he communicates via email with potential Indian clients(government and company officials) and then does not get a response for long periods of time or not at all. I told him there could be various [...]
CSIR, Godavari Sugar to set up India’s first sugar cane biorefinery
livemint
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, or CSIR, has teamed up with Karnataka-based The Godavari Sugar Mills Ltd, or GSML, to set up the country’s first biorefinery to convert crushed sugar cane into industrial raw materials such as cellulose and lignin.
Waste management: The biorefinery at GSML will be equipped to produce ethanol from bagasse, [...]
Indian oil firms eye land in Paraguay, Uruguay and Myanmar to grow crops
Money Matters – livemint.com
Some of the country’s top vegetable oil firms plan to lease or buy land in Paraguay, Uruguay and Myanmar to grow oilseeds and lentils as farmland shrinks in the South Asian nation, a top trade official said on Tuesday.
Despite being the world’s second biggest grower of rice and wheat and the leading [...]
Oil, the 21st Century dot.com boom
Any short-term falls in oil prices will be merely blips in a long, relentless upward trend.Finance Week UK
“China today consumes as much crude oil per person as the US did in 1905, before mass production of the Model-C Ford and long before the advent of the jet engine,” points out Robin Batchelor, manager of BlackRock’s [...]
Cost-Cutting in New York, but a Boom in India
NYTimes.com
Cost-cutting in New York and London has already been brutal thus far this year, and there is more to come in the next few months. New York City financial firms expect to hand out some $18 billion less in pay and benefits this year than 2007, the largest one-year drop ever. Over all, United States [...]
U.S. Credit crunch ‘echoes Latin debt crisis’
Reading Minister Velasco’s comments reminded me of a statement made by Nouriel Roubini, as part of an NYT profile on him, a couple of weeks ago – “that the US looked like the biggest emerging market of them all“!! That movie ending that Latin America knows “full well” is scary – hyperinflation, capital flight, currency [...]
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