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Asian Innovation: Frugal Ideas Are Spreading from East to West
Multinationals are beginning to take ideas developed in (and for) the emerging world and deploy them in the West.
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- South Asia
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Omidyar’s Jayant Sinha: Volatile Government Policy is a Deterrent to Investing
Jayant Sinha, partner and MD, Omidyar Network India Advisors, tells Dinesh Narayanan that government trying to micro-manage the economy is not good. Edited excerpts from an interview.
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Angel Deals May Get Tax Breather
Individual investment up to Rs 5 crore and total deal of Rs 10 crore may be exempted.
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World Bank Chief in India, Focus on Poverty Alleviation
World Bank Group President Robert B Zoellick begins an official visit to India tomorrow, to see what more it can do to support government efforts to overcome poverty, as India embarks on its 12th five-year Plan and global recovery remains fragile.
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Omidyar Network Backs Two More Indian Firms
Omidyar Network started funding projects in India about two years ago with plans to invest up to $200 million in five years
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Growth Busts Poverty
Poverty estimates between 2004-05 and 2009-10 show a sharp reduction in the absolute number of the poor by 52.5 million to 354.7 million.
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Is India Misrepresenting Its Poverty Numbers?
India’s poverty figures fluctuate wildly, anywhere from 300 million people to 800 million people, depending on whom you ask.
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A Changing Innovation Landscape
At a time when the global economy continues to be in a state of flux and the emerging economies are also beginning to feel the impact of this uncertainty, my mind races to the proverbial thought of viewing the glass as half empty or half full. I choose the latter.
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- Impact Assessment
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