David Cameron has been visiting India again in an effort to drum up bilateral trade. Very laudable indeed. As we can see from Tata’s
investment in Jaguar Land Rover the company has come on leaps and bounds since the Indian Conglomerate took over the ailing British company in 2008 with billions of pounds investment.
There are also many areas where UK companies can help India, particularly in developing infrastructure which is one of the main bottlenecks to growth in the country & in improving telecommunications.
India is a vast country both geographically and economically. With a GDP of nearly 2 trillion GBP it is on target to become 4th largest in the world around 2020 at current growth rates.
Of course, India is not without it’s problems:-
- Infant Mortality – 63/1000
- 320,000 deaths from diarrhea per annum
- Sanitation coverage 31 %
- Only 15% of rural population has access to a toilet.
- 29.8% below poverty line, most living on less than $2 per day.
India has come a long way in the last 20 years but it also has a very long way to go in eradicating poverty & disease within it’s own boundaries. Hopefully David Cameron can persuade his hosts to address these issues as well as selling them a few helicopters.
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Like the banks before them the manufacturers & distributors of this garbage will learn they neglect their ethics at their peril.
2012 has been a pretty miserable year with freakish weather on both sides of the Atlantic, in the U.K the highest rainfall since records began saw people washed out of house and home and businesses ruined. In the USA Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast and several lives were lost, homes ruined & businesses destroyed.
You only have to follow the News to find out who’s suing who in the Intellectual Property wars, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia – they’re all at it – but is the whole intellectual property industry an anachronism of the past ?
The news today that Barclays CEO Bob Diamond has resigned has been greeted in many areas with unbridled euphoria. Those who blame “greedy bankers” for the current crisis are rubbing their hands in glee.
In the U.K today we slumped to another level of misery with unemployment hitting 2.57 million, the highest for 17 years. What a tragedy especially for our youth with levels above 21% for 16 – 24 year olds.
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