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 …
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Organizing through the Shelters in Delhi
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 the world stage. …
Walmart Plot Thickens in India
Delhi At the top of my agenda in Delhi as I met with ACORN India Delhi director and India FDI Watch director Dharmendra Kumar was understanding better the misjudgment of Prime Minister Singh and his Congress Party led government when they tried to mandate a change in foreign direct investment in November 2011 in multi-brand …