New Orleans For years the India FDI Watch Campaign supported by ACORN International has campaigned to make sure that any modification in foreign direct investment would protect the 20,000,000 small retailers, birani shop keepers, brokers, and others would be done responsibly. Working to build a large, diverse national coalition, the [...]
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New Orleans Walking downstairs in the predawn there was the smell of smoke in the air. It smelled exactly like a Delhi morning where the acrid dawn is a daily greeting. Something must be burning on the bayous. It was enough of a sign that it must be time to talk about Anna Hazare [...] New Orleans Like many I’ve read the Osama Bin Laden deathwatch and Seal 6 commando raid stories, word for word, and line by line. I’ve found it fascinatingly educational. Reading Leon Panetta, the USA CIA director’s accounts of the search for Bin Laden, I found it telling that one of the last steps before presenting [...] Delhi Last year’s stubbed toes in Delhi over India’s first shot at hosting the Commonwealth Games are still in the news in the wake of continued outrage at the national embarrassment caused by the widespread corruption that revealed shoddy construction and desultory preparations. The headlines were full of charges and counter charges as [...]
Delhi The Times of India and the Hindustan Times, among the largest papers in the world, were filled with incredulous and fawning stories on Sunday of a rarity in modern, big business India: a simple protest that ignited real change in the culture of political corruption. Most of [...] New Orleans ACORN International is hard at work right now on pulling together all of the pieces and pressure on [...] New Orleans Vikram Akula of SKS Microfinance Microfinance has many positives, but should never be confused or misnamed as a “poverty reduction” strategy. There is simply no way to reduce poverty through debt. Microfinance or microcredit or micro-lending or whatever the name has a value for the poor as a way to access minimal credit [...] |
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