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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 [...]
Brazil’s Ascendency as an Oil Power
Over the next decade Brazil may become one of the largest oil producing nations in the world. In late 2007 a new and sizable oil field, dubbed the “Tupi” field, was discovered in the Santos Basin in deep water off the Brazilian coast, and it holds the promise of energy self-sufficiency for Brazil. As Dilma [...]
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 [...]
India on verge of farm disaster: M.S. Swaminathan
Image by leetucker via Flickr
India was the leading economy of the world for much of the last 2000 years from wealth generated from agricultural surplus. As Jim Rogers says, India should be the greatest agricultural country in the world, not America, with great weather, soils, climate. But, government policies militate against farming as a lucrative [...]
The Global Innovation Migration to Low-cost Engineering
- BusinessWeek
American companies are also moving major portions of their operations abroad. IBM employs nearly 100,000 workers in India, HP has 26,000, Microsoft (MSFT) has 5,500, and Cisco (CSCO) has 5,000. Pfizer employs 4,000 in China and 2,300 in India. These companies are developing some of their most sophisticated products abroad, often to target the [...]
Frugal engineering – Indian Firms Shift Focus to the Poor
This kind of innovation can serve all Bottom of the Pyramid markets. In Latin America about 25% percent of the people (130 or so million) live on less than $2 a day. WSJ.com
India’s many engineers, whose best-known role is to help Western companies expand or cut costs, are now turning their attention to the purchasing [...]
Developing countries need $83 bn a year to feed 9.1bn people in 2050
livemint.com
Primary agriculture investment needs include some $20 billion a year earmarked for crop production and $13 billion for livestock, the FAO said in a paper ahead of a forum on how to feed the world in 2050 it is due to hold on 12 Oct-13 Oct in Rome.
A further $50 billion a year would be [...]
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