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 to enter the growing Indian …
Category: International
Last Gasp Support for Grameen Bank and Microlending?
New York City To see George Shultz, a former US Secretary of Labor, Treasury, and State and Madeleine Albright, a former UN Ambassador and US Secretary of State, co-sign an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal as a last gasp move to prevent the Bangladesh Government’s takeover of the path breaking micro-lending institution, the …
Report from the front: Cambodia
New Orleans Jeff Fox was the organizing director of the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) and the head of the British Columbia NDP for many years before retiring. In recent years he has been based with his wife in Kosovo, but given her role as country director there with an American pro-democracy training institute and …