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Trade with Latin America: Comparison of US, China and India
India’s trade with Latin America was $11 billion last year. So, a long way to go. For historical context, China’s trade with LatAm was about $13 billion in 2000.
Indian companies’ success in the United States – especially in IT software and services, pharmaceuticals, engineering products puts them in a good position to gain a foothold [...]
A World Led By India And China
Forbes.com
As many have observed, the global order that is emerging has a distinct Asian tilt because of the rise of China and India as geopolitical forces. The two countries’ growing power may stimulate an “Eastphalian” order that challenges the Western-led approaches that dominated the Age of Imperialism, the Cold War and the post-Cold War period.
The [...]
MNCs must pay attention to middle class to reap benefits
Brand Equity-Specials-The Economic Times
A new global middle class is rising up from poverty in emerging economies around the world, providing competition for labour and resources, butalso enormous promise for multinationals that tailor products and services to the burgeoning ranks of first-time consumers, according to Wharton faculty and analysts.
Coca-Cola’s newly appointed chief executive Muhtar Kent sees [...]
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,” [...]
Latin America and the Caribbean’s Response to Growth in China and India
World Bank – Office of the Chief Economist –
According to the study Latin America and the Caribbean’s Response to the Growth of China and India: Overview of Research Findings and Policy Implications, concerns that both countries are displacing the LAC region in world markets for goods, services, foreign direct investment, and innovation are misleading.
Guillermo [...]
Comfortably-placed China good for grain, oil markets
Economy-News-The Economic Times
Take oilseeds. This year China expects to harvest 56 million tonnes oilseeds, a jump of 3 mt over last year. Soyabeans are China’s largest oilseed crop, and production has risen 25% in last five years. But consumption of soya as food has jumped 43%. Last year, China’s soya harvest slumped to the lowest [...]
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 [...]
China Dev. Bank to invest more in African farming
Reuters
The China Development Bank plans further African farming investments as the continent tries to raise output to curb food inflation and shortages, Governor Chen Yuan told African finance ministers and bankers on Friday.
An oil and commodities boom has brought Africa billions of dollars of investment from China and elsewhere in recent years, but has [...]
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