Archive for September 8th, 2008

Entrepreneurship | Spreading the gospel

Traditionally in Latin America, if you were smart and from a respectable family, becoming a lawyer was the ultimate in gaining societal status and wealth. Or maybe a doctor. Then possibly an engineer. Now many countries in the region have an abundance of abogados (lawyers) – many of them with no work. Only when entrepreneurship [...]


India, shy of donor tag, wins US praise

The Economic Times India and China were not meant to have been active participants in the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which was called by the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the group representing the world’s richest donor nations. But the two Asian nations were forced to [...]


More Italian dons

Business Standard I don’t know what it is about all things Italian that so fascinates us in India — maybe the oft-touted similarities between our way of thinking, maybe the halo of the Roman Empire, and perhaps, the fascinating ambience of the country. Whatever the reasons, there has been a recent rash of Italian designer [...]