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...India simply because it can't ignore a billion-strong consumer market with an economy growing at 7% a year even in a global recession. But investors have come to realize, as anyone who lives in India has, that the rising superpower once touted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as "Incredible India" has been oversold. Some of its strengths, left unmanaged, turn into weaknesses. India's rapid urbanization, for example, is energizing its cities by bringing new aspirations and new consumers from rural to urban areas. But these migrants are also taxing the infrastructure. India might have...
...than just lip service to the notion of cleaning up their act. "Heavy industry in general faces some of the biggest problems because of what it does, but it was also the first sector to recognize that it had a problem," says Peter Madden of the London-based ngo Forum for the Future, which worked together with Dulux on the Ecosure product...
Shai Agassi, the founder and CEO of Better Place, a company devoted to supporting the widespread usage of electric cars, touted the idea of transportation as a subscription service in a speech to a packed forum at the Institute of Politics yesterday...
...Health, Dr. Barry R. Bloom as moderator. The panelists included Dr. David E. Bloom, chair of the Department of Population and International Health at HSPH; Dr. Julio J. Frenk, HSPH dean designate; and Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, director of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The forum was directed at the newly elected members of Congress who are participating in a program at the IOP this week. Speaking to the new representatives, Barry Bloom discussed America’s role in global health. “One of the questions I think we need to consider...
...Susan knows the global challenges we face demand global institutions that work. She shares my belief that the U.N. is an indispensable and imperfect forum." - Barack Obama, on Rice's appointment, Washington Post...