New Orleans Thanks to a decision by the Supreme Court in India many desperately ill leukemia patients in Africa and Asia will live, though of course many more will die. The court ruled that that Indian pharmaceutical factories can continue making a generic version of the drug Gleevec made by Novartis. In the developed world [...]
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Ad for Mobile Phones for Below Poverty Line Card Holders in India New Orleans There’s something interesting happening in developing countries around welfare benefits that is very important now: they are increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of their direct cash welfare programs as the income and wealth of their countries improve. This is not to [...] protest against foreign retail gaints in India earlier this year Quito Though I could find no information in the US-based press, the stalemate in the Parliament in India was finally broken yesterday after a week long stalemate centered on the parliamentarians’ opposition to the Government’s action to unilaterally modify foreign direct investment restrictions in multi-brand [...] India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh New Orleans Desperate to hold onto power with national elections coming in 2013 and beset by crises over coal, telecom, and slowing growth, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announced modifications in foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, potentially paving the way for Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, Metro, and other multi-national companies [...] rooftop picture of slum in Dharavi, Mumbai Mumbai Registering slums and settlements is very important business in India. Being a registered slum gives both immediate benefits and potentially some future entitlements. Immediately there are things like water, not just the tanks making the delivery, but a commitment from the city that ends in standpipes and [...] ITO shelter today Bengaluru The Commonwealth Games are the old British Empire’s continued footprint in the former colonies every several years as athletes’ troop in between the Olympics, and when India hosted the games for the first time in Delhi in the fall of 2010, this was to be a star turn for the city on [...] |
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