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Iran The Persian Awakening (Photo: Courtesy of Fariborz Alagheband @ ati3d.com)

Iran: The Persian Awakening

A rare insight into Iran’s indigenous industrialization marvel The Herat industrial city has 300 factories and most of them have been set up with the help of Iranian technologies”, said Haji Saeed Khatibi – Head...

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MarketExpress Education Series: Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI)

Understanding Qualified Foreign Investors (QFI) and their impact on Indian capital markets Former Finance Minister turned President of  India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee opened up doors of Indian Capital Markets on Jan 1, 2012 by announcing guidelines for investments...

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Raghuram rajan committee on backwardness of states

PV Rajeev’s observations and views on Raghuram Rajan committee report on backwardness of states According to the current practice special category states are identified based on features such as hilly and difficult terrain, low population...

Low tax collections in India

Low tax collections and India’s economic problems

India’s low tax collections woes and the importance of Indirect taxes on India’s economic problems. Global data compendium CIA World Fact-book puts India’s tax collection at 9.3% of GDP, higher than only Nigeria, Syria, Sudan...

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Property purchase taxes in India

Examining property purchase taxes in India and the points to be considered by buyer while buying a property. The real estate industry is one of the most heavily taxed industries in the country. Property Purchase...

Asian Development Bank slashes regional growth outlook

Emerging economies in the Asia-Pacific region are losing steam, which has prompted the Asian Development Bank to sharply cut its growth forecast. The bank calls for more financial stability and reforms. Gross domestic product (GDP)...

MarketExpress Education Series: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

After hearing enough rambling on FDI’s and its urgent need to stop Indian rupee fall, one is very curious to know about FDI and trying to understand what qualifies as FDI and what routes are...

Indian Solar Industry Unlikely to ever Recover from its Pygmytized State

The Indian solar industry has been clamoring for AD duties on cheap solar panel imports for a long time, however nothing has come out of its except an ongoing investigation. Even as the USA and Europe...

Financial Planning: Using Common Sense to Achieve Fiscal Fitness

Imagine a river over which we need to build a bridge at a particular spot.  Two aspects are fundamental to the construction plan: The location which decides the kind of bridge that can be built...

India’s Foreign Policy crisis

Re-looking at the Indian Tragedy Just a decade ago India was being promoted as a shining light of Asia, globally. India was dubbed as economically resilient and fundamentally sound by an army of Indian economic...

BRICS agree rescue fund to stem currencies slide

The BRICS group of five emerging countries has reached agreement on a fund aiming to stabilize their currencies. The fund, worth $100 billion, seeks to stem an outflow of capital once the US changes monetary...

20:80 Scheme a boon for property buyers

Of late we have seen that the 20:80 scheme (subvention) has become very popular with the property buyers. More and more developers are now bundling this scheme with their new property offerings in order to...