Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbandar, India, Gujarat, the province of the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Although at the opposite of Gandhi’s thinking and especially his non-violent practice, Modi obviously did...
India is primarily and widely known as an agrarian economy where the mainstay of a large chunk of the people is agriculture. More than 50% of the population either depends directly or indirectly on agriculture....
A global sigh of relief that the US will not tariff all its imports from Mexico. Equities are all higher, and the weekend demonstrations in Hong Kong over a bill allowing extraditions to the mainland...
The US announcement to lay a 5% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico (starting June 10) until it stops the flow of “illegal migrants” spurred sharp losses in the Mexican peso and general risk-off...
Credit flow to the commercial sector is like the pulse of the economy. The relationship between the duo can be traced back to the writings of Schumpeter (1911) who argued that the financial sector can...
Equities are paring some of their recent losses. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index is posting its first back-to-back gain in a month, led by a more than 1% rally in China. Heightened prospects for an...
Youth of today are the key instruments for positive social change and the driving force for economic development and technological innovation. The changing social and economic environment impacts people in different ways and it is...
Conflict between sentiment and hard data is not unusual but is already looking like the biggest challenge for investors in 2019. Real activity Index chart comes from the collaboration on global economic data between the...
There were only a few formal disputes under NAFTA 1.0. It says more about the adjudication process than the underlying issues. It was not binding. The Democrats want stronger enforcement provisions in what the NAFTA...
The drama of Brexit with all its arcane details of UK parliamentary procedures and rarely noted characters that suddenly appear prominently on the global stage and utter market-moving words has turned into a complicated mess...
Viewed from richer countries and specially old Europe, the world is crazy. It is heading for disaster. China is on its long journey towards a final financial crisis. India fell into fanatical religious nationalism and...
Corruption and poor governance as a major deterrent to investment and economic growth is well known. Yet in many spheres we have accepted corruption as a way of life. However, with the growing public awareness...
