Argentina

Frontier Investing – Asia and Latin America

TWO OF AMIT WADHWANEY’S passions are international stocks and ethnic restaurants. That he is an avowed value investor is no surprise, given that Third Avenue Management, his employer, was founded in the mid-1980s by famed bargain-hunter Marty Whitman. Wadhwaney’s duties include running the Third Avenue International Fund (TAVIX). Barron’s recently caught up by Wadhwaney by [...]


Agriculture is one of the great places to be – Jim Rogers on Bloomberg UTV in India

Jim speaking at an event – “Investment strategies in an emerging financial lanscape”. Funny to see the Indian interviewer’s (probably an MBA!) WTF reaction to Jim’s comments on agriculture. In trying to sell the attractiveness of the farming business in South America to potential investors, I’ve found the going rough in India. People cannot imagine [...]


India’s Interest in Latin America/South America must go beyond World Cup: Not just football superpowers, agriculture superpowers as well

Note: an abbreviated version of this article titled “India’s Interest in Latin America must go beyond World Cup” was syndicated by Indo-Asian News Wire Service. A few portals that ran the article include: SIFY, TradeIndia, IndiaNewsPost, ThaIndian, SouthAsiaMail, ProKerala, Gulf Times, Qatar and the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs. Over the next few weeks, millions [...]


Happy 200th Anniversary of the Revolution, Argentina!

Hope you have a chance to visit this beautiful country this year and explore business opportunities. Wishing that Argentina’s reaches its economic potential in the next decades! A trip down memory lane. Romantic Argentina 1932 Argentina – The Bicentennial Year starts The Bicentennial Year starts On May 25th 2010 Argentina will celebrate the 200 years [...]


India’s Ybrant Digital acquires Argentine

 Business Standard Ybrant Digital, a Hyderabad-based provider of digital marketing solutions, has acquired dream ad, an Argentine advertising network company, in all all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition, its fifth so far, will give Ybrant access to the Latin American region by adding four more countries – Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico – [...]


Urban Indians ‘eating out’ more

Since Italian food is quite popular among young urban Indians, Argentina – with its large population descended from Italian immigrants and many of those in the food business, should be considered as source for packaged and frozen Italian foods. More potential to scale up and supply India’s needs for the next few decades.livemint.com The Food [...]


Nuevo paradigma de relaciones entre India y Argentina

Ambassador Viswanathan writing about the “new paradigm of relations”, in advance of the upcoming Argentine presidential visit to India, which has been postponed in light of PM Singh’s heart surgery. Key takeaway is Argentina with almost the same land area as India (only about 10% less), and population equalling that of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and [...]


Argentinean biodiesel will get a $900 million boost

GreenMomentum – Despite a drop in global prices for both crops and oil, the Argentinean biofuel industry projections remain optimistic for 2009 as multi-million dollar projects continue to move forward.Almost 900 million dollars are to be invested in the construction of new biodiesel plants by 2010, as well as in new sugar mill projects designed [...]


India and Latin America: Water Scarcity vs. Abundance

Total Actual Renewable Water Resources (TARWR) Per capita m3/year


LatAm to reach 388 mln mobile lines by end-2008

Telecompaper Latin America will reach over 388 million mobile lines in service at the end of this year, accounting for 9.6 percent of the overall mobile lines in service worldwide, according to the Information Society index (ISI) established by consulting firm Everis. Brazil is expected to end the year with 143.2 million phones, Mexico with [...]