Hindustan Times
China has been a great economic story the past few years, but a diplomatic and political disaster. Between roughly 2006 and 2010 it successfully picked a fight, sometimes almost literally, with virtually every one of its neighbours. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 1:05 am
Filed under World · Tagged China, economy, global financial crisis, India, Lehman Brothers, Manmohan Singh, middle kingdom, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
Flying back from a desultory summit meeting in Moscow last year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was asked by the media about the state of the economy. He mumbled a few things but noted that investment was riding at 36 per cent of the GDP and so he was confident. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 16, 2012 at 1:24 am
Filed under World · Tagged GDP, global financial crisis, HINDUSTAN Times, Indian economy, investment, Manmohan Singh, moscow summit, news, pramitpal chaudhuri
Reading some of the statements of Osama Bin Laden and his ilk one is struck about their ignorance of modern economies. They think it’s all about oil, as you would expect from Gulf Arabs. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 12:40 am
Filed under World · Tagged 9/11, A Machine That Would Go Of Itself, Al Qaeda, global financial crisis, Gulf Arabs, HINDUSTAN Times, Michael Kammen, new, Osama Bin Laden, pramitpal chaudhuri, Soviet Union, us economy, Victor Davis Hanson, World Trade Center
Kazakhstan superficially reminds one of Saudi Arabia. It is a vast country, much of it ecologically hostile to human habitation (-45 C in the winter one Kazakh told me); inhabited by a population about the same as a large Indian city; and choc-a-bloc with mineral resources – oil, gas, uranium, coal and whatnot. Read more
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Astana, Central Asia, GDP, global financial crisis, ISKCON, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Soviet system, Uzbekistan
