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Everyone Wants Security, As Farmland Prices Go Parabolic
Latin America price arbitrage exists in hi-quality farmland – prices ranging from $2000 to $3000 per acre in Uruguay and Paraguay, for ready to farm properties. The problem of feeding Asia exists no matter if the USD and EUR ultimately become worthless over the next 2 decades with massive money printing. Farmland prices will likely [...]
Indian Companies See Growth Opportunities In Latin America
Latin America gets almost zero coverage in the Indian media, who is affliced with extreme ‘SouthAsianitis’ in their news coverage. Many Indian executives have never seen a visual of the region. The occasional coverage is the annual carnaval in Rio, the World Cup every 4 years featuring plenty of LatAm teams, and the anti-yankee rants [...]
Agriculture Opportunities in Latin America – Speech at CII Partnership Summit
I was invited to speak at the CII Partnership Summit held in Chennai at the session on New Trade Routes. I spoke on how Latin/South America is well-positioned as the world’s agriculture outsourcing hub, and can meet India’s needs for food security. See video below:
The recent price rise in food items which has caused heartache [...]
Fair and Peely
This is an obvious cultural similarity across India (with ubiquitous Fair and Lovely ads for women and men)and Latin America – use of skin whitening creams. You think in their competitive quest for more face whitening, marketers will soon talk people of color into splashing diluted Clorox on their faces. via NYTimes.com
For years, Allison Ross [...]
Finding the Shipping Center of the World, in Graphical Form
India-LatAm direct shipping links are abysmally low. Panama Canal and Santos in Brazil are the LatAm ports in the top 20 central ports.via Infectious Greed
Transportation networks play a crucial role in human mobility, the exchange of goods, and the spread of invasive species. With 90% of world trade carried by sea, the global network of [...]
Developing Cities from India to Colombia Leapfrog Ahead With Clean, Green Bus Rapid Transit Systems
Latin America cities are pioneers in deploying BRT and it is good to see Indian cities like Ahmedabad learn from this approach. This needs to be combined with road pricing, like in Singapore, to alleviate traffic delays and facilitate mobility.The former mayor of Curitiba-Brazil, Jaime Lerner who was the pioneer in this approach details his [...]
Why is Haiti so poor?
Some context on the current disaster’s aftermath in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas. Jared Diamond, of Guns, Germs and Steel fame, in his later book Collapse compares Haiti with Dominican Republic – located on the same island of Hispaniola – where incidentally Columbus landed in the Americas. He too attributed Haiti’s lower economic [...]
Financial crisis eliminated 2.2 mn jobs in Latin America
SMETimes
The economic crisis eliminated 2.2 million jobs last year in Latin America and the Caribbean, a figure that boosted the rate of unemployment from 7.5 percent to 8.4 percent, according to a report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
The ILO forecasts that this percentage, which reflects the 18.1 million of those currently jobless, could [...]
Two BRICs – India vs. Brazil
Emerginvest Featured Analysis: Rebacca Wilder
In fact, the BRIC data, side-by-side, paints a darker picture for Brazil’s growth trajectory than that for India. Let’s see why.
India, China, and Russia increased their respective investment shares of GDP over the latest decade- Brazil, too, but at a much slower rate. India (as I discussed in a previous post) [...]
Comparative Indo-LatAm Geography (mountains + rivers)
Length Comparison in an old Victorian map between the rivers in South America – the Amazon, River Plate (La Plata), and Orinoco (made famous in song by Enya) with the rivers Ganges and Indus.
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