Opinion
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Will A NAFTA Deal Be Struck (in principle) Next Week?

Whiplashed? Last weekend, President Trump threatened again to walk away from NAFTA. Within 48 hours, reports suggest he wanted an agreement at next week’s Summit of the America (April 13-14 in Peru). The art of...

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Significance of the US-Korea Agreement

The US and South Korea struck an important agreement this week.  Many are recognizing it as the first success of President Trump’s trade strategy and a turning point in general.  It is being offered as an...

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Unfair business practices in FM Radio Licensing

CCI orders investigation under section 26(1) against Prasar Bharati for alleged abuse of dominance – unfair business practices with regard to Phase III FM Radio Policy. The informant / Next Radio (engaged in Frequency Modulation...

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Discriminatory Trade or Supplementing Trade: The choice for the future

Opportunity Costs exists in Trade but if trade is seen as a Comparative Cost Advantage theory of Ricardo, its more supplementing rather than complimenting the growth process of each country’s GDP. Ricardo proposed that amongst all...

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Renewed Threat of Trade War Makes Investors Angry

In response to the resignation of one of the few “globalist” advisers in the US Administration, the resignation Cohn has sent ripples through the capital markets. Stocks have been marked down across the world. The...

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Myanmar: The Next Asian Dragon

Myanmar’s Aviation Industry is at a serious juncture in its evolvement and no longer sustainable in its current and present shape. Over the past five years Myanmar has  approved the start-up of four new domestic...

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Is there a Multilateralism that the US could Like?

Among the first acts on trade by the new US Administration was to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral trade pact. Trump’s opposition to TPP was well-known, but less appreciated by his critics, is that...

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Politics, Election 2019, Economy: Whither India?

The India of 2019 may be drastically different from India of 2018. A general election is due in 2019 and the outcome of that election is totally uncertain. It is possible that BJP may once...

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Cartelization in film industry in India

The informants have alleged that the theatre owners, association of film theatres, various trade associations whose members are inter-alia engaged in the business of films and TV serials exhibition, production and distribution have formed a...

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Investors Remain Uneasy even as Equities Stabilize

There is an unease that continues to hang over the market. It is as if a shoe fell last week, and most investors seem to be waiting for the other shoe to drop. It is...

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Equity Sell-Off Extends to Asia, but More Muted in Europe

The 100-point slide in the S&P 500 and the 1000-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrials yesterday spurred more bloodletting in Asia. The 1.8% drop in the MSCI Asia Pacific Index (for a 6.7% loss...

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Getting to know villagers

Though extremely unstable, agricultural growth has far outpaced population growth in recent years; the supply of agricultural goods per head has risen. The proportion of population dependent on agriculture has been falling; so goods produced...