A country like India badly needs an integrated medicine infrastructure to help fix it healthcare. For example, there is just one doctor for every 1,457 people based on the most updated population figure of 1.35 billion people, and obviously this ratio is much lower than WHO’s acceptable norm of 1:1000. And according to ministry of health…
The Influence of Culture on Investment Behaviour
Culture plays a very important role in an economy, and there is a reason for it. Humans beings are designed to be cultural. Since the evolution of human modern human society, culture has continued to be a strong part of average people’s lives. Culture tends to influence people views, values, money, aspirations, hopes, their priorities…
When talking about the Indian economy, are we missing the big picture ?
So the new government got into the office on the back of a pitch that was based on a lot of hope and promises, and while I have been personally quite supportive of the need for change. I have never been in any doubt that, the changes will require time and government will have to…
The Changing GAME, and the Global economy
The recent movements in the markets and its overall behaviour is starting to indicate that the game is changing and has already changed somewhat, and the market participants are having to adapt to these changes rather quickly. And here is an example, so when my GrandMa suggested that never mind the good old correlation theory,…
The statistical data and the design of the modern economy
Our modern economic system is overload with all sorts of statistical data, all aimed at helping us better understand and interpret, the overall health and condition of the economy. And one of the top leading economic indicator to measure the health of an economy is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), used by central bankers around…
Talking About The All Scary Emerging Market, Market Perception and Investing in General
The markets are once again busy with chatter about Emerging Market ( EM ) and the sound of CHOAS seems to be re-emerging and many in the market are starting to wonder, what's next ? A number of analysts have gone on record suggesting in their daily market commentary that emerging markets could now be…
The Need For India and other Emerging Market Economies to Stay Ahead of the Game
During the recent G20 meeting, the Indian and the Japanese government announced to boost their bilateral currency SWAP agreement from US 15 billion to US 50 billion. This measure is most certainly a step in the right direction and not just because I have been talking about it for months but the arrangement sends all…
Innovation,Ideas and the Search for Growth in a market disconnected with the Real Economy
The Best Innovative Idea can come from Anywhere Today. End users need, market demand, availability of new technology and the search for growth are some of the Key driving forces behind innovation. FOR example Africa out of necessity is becoming the testing ground for new and innovative mobile banking experiments. The ongoing innovation in mobile…
The CHINDIANS – Reshaping the future of the global economy
Indo-China Trade has been growing at over five times the rate of world trade growth. Going forward their increasing economic strength and bilateral trade will create a super growth corridor where the world could plug in. China and India are now leading economic stories on the world stage and this story may very well last…
Prognosis: Where Are We Heading?
In the last few weeks some of my friends and colleagues have been very busy debating the global economic situation and trying to figure out where we are heading. GO Figure! Eh…. I so wish I could help them and had answers to all their questions. But then on a second thought no harm in…
