New Orleans The India FDI Watch Campaign, a project supported by ACORN International, said it all in a recent bulletin when it juxtaposed two articles a year apart. In one case Tesco, the giant UK retailer, scoffed at the Wal-Mart backdoor entry into India as a partner with Bharti, as “illegal.” In the piece …
Category: International
Citi Finance’s Victim
Gulf Shores Babu Kahn runs the ACORN International and India FDI Watch office in Bangalore, India. He forwarded several messages that startled me from the torpor of steady warm, beach breezes on Gulf Shores. The headline announced “Citi Finance Roudism” and talked about some kind of suicide near Bangalore. I opened the file, and then …
Crippling Shipping
Gulf Shores To see an article in the NYT calling globalization into question because of rising fuel prices must have left Thomas Friedman’s collar sweating in the editorial pages, but there it was right on the front page. Lord, they were even talking about “neighborhood economics” (which is not quite what we think of as …