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A show, The Big Switch, places slum-dwellers and BlackBerry users side-by-side. Most viewers will agree that this scene could only be conjured up for TV
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For the governments, there are diminishing returns to curbing violence
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India’s much-touted telecom boom is running the risk of coming apart at the seams -- the result of price-based competition that is seeing profits shrink at the country’s largest telecom firms
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There is little doubt that more than 25 years of reforms have lifted growth rates in India and helped pull millions out of poverty
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Nehru and Obama are part of a long tradition that believes public policy run by experts can solve pressing national problems
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Now that growth is again a certainty, it is important the central bank keeps an eye on inflation and financial stability
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First, high corporate savings are related to low levels of corporate governance, so shareholders cannot use their voting power to demand higher dividends and prevent firms from hoarding cash
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India needs a single goods and services tax to integrate a fragmented national market and spur economic growth
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Interference in dispensing justice greatly lowers the cost of committing crime and actually fuels lawlessness in society
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Growing job losses are likely to have several effects, the most important being that the US Federal Reserve will find it hard to raise interest rates despite the need to do so
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Preparatory talks for the summit at Copenhagen have floundered because rich countries could not sort these issues
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Difficult economic and political conditions ahould not lead to abandonment of carefully crafted laws and rules, even for a short time, at the mere appearance of a problem
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Child labour has complex reasons. Unless those reasons are addressed, banning products and companies using such labour will not end child labour
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RTI petitions fail due to a combination of bureaucratic stonewalling (firewalling is a better description) and “sympathy” of information commissioners towards officialdom
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Asian countries trade a lot among themselves in intermediate inputs, but a huge chunk of final global demand still comes from US consumers
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A Bloomberg poll on Friday notes that relatively new Singapore outpaces the old City of London as investors’ preferred place of doing business
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Motor vehicle output added 1.66 percentage points to the last quarter’s output change, courtesy Barack Obama’s “cash for clunkers” scheme that spends $3 billion to get Americans to trade in an old car for a new one
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Swine flu is still with us but the nation seems to have bizarrely moved on to new excitements
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In recent days, the OIS market has been pricing in a 200 basis points increase in interest rates a year down the line
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