Full Coverage: Economy

29.11.2006 Trade between India and Pakistan can increase to a phenomenal level of 6.6 billion dollars if barriers are removed and the neighbouring country implements the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement, an ICRIER report has said.

28.11.2006 from Gristmill blog:
A massive new Apollo project? Massive subsidies for renewable technologies? Thousands of more nuclear plants? Wrong. It's much simpler than that.

28.11.2006 Papiya Sarkar from the Media and Communications group of the India Social Forum (ISF) writes about the seminars on globalisation and fair trade that she attended at the recently-concluded ISF. The discussions were on overcoming barriers to fair trade and making it work for the socio economic development of the marginalised sections of the population.

28.11.2006 IndiaÂ’s economic performance in the past two decades has been remarkable, but closer subregional integration would help the country and its neighbors to achieve their full economic potential, a senior ADB official told a press briefing.

27.11.2006 The On.Net Internet provider and several cable operators may become the first companies to enter the landline telephone services market and compete with “Macedonian Telecommunications” Co. at the start of next year. The potential operators complain of the high interconnection charges as the main obstacle to their entry in the market.

24.11.2006 Microfinance Information eXchange, Inc. (MIX is a global, web-based, microfinance information platform. It provides information to sector actors and the public at large on microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide, public and private funds that invest in microfinance.

24.11.2006 High GDP growth in India since the beginning of economic reforms has often been accused of promoting growth without a human face.New health data shows improvement in quality of life since 1992. Public health services in India have worsened over the same period.

21.11.2006 SAK regards the context of the service directive, approved by the European Parliament, as something good. SAK's chief legal counsel Jorma Rusanen says. "The new directive will facilitate the free movement of services which can be useful also for Finnish service sector companies and employees."

20.11.2006 As per a project financed by the Austrian Development Agency – ADA, the Economic Initiative for Kosova - ECIKS will represent the Investment Promotion Agency of Kosovo - IPAK in German Speaking Countries. The project is to be implemented by ECIKS and supported by Kosovar Ministry for Trade and Industry.

16.11.2006 When it comes to providing new possibilities for the outsourcing and offshoring of services, no one can beat us Indians. The proof of this comes from the latest form of such offshoring that is increasingly using India as the preferred location: the phenomenon of surrogate motherhood.

14.11.2006 Every 30 minutes an Afghan woman and six Indian women die in childbirth, yet annually India welcomes 150,000 "medical tourists" who fly in for cheaper treatment than they can receive at home in the 'developed' world.