Beijing Olympics- A curse or a boon? (Part 2)
Sports economists have generally been pessimistic about the longer term economic implications of major events like Olympics. From the day...
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- Sep 10, 2008
- 8 min
Beijing Olympics – A curse or a boon?(Part 1)
When the 29th Olympics opened in Beijing on 8th August amid a spectacular display of fireworks and sky dancers, it was watched with awe...
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- Jun 25, 2008
- 5 min
How Deadly is the Dragon at Your Door?
President De Gaulle of France once derisively described a visiting Japanese prime minister as a “travelling transistor salesman.” Nearly...
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- Feb 2, 2008
- 16 min
China – Growing Anxiously
“Let China sleep,” Napoleon Bonaparte cautioned famously, “for when awakes she will shake the world.” Nearly two hundred years later his...
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- Oct 24, 2007
- 6 min
China in Hu’s Colours: Part II
(In continuation of “China in Hu’s Colours: Part I”) In the report presented by President Mr.Hu Jintao, in his capacity as the Party...
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- Aug 4, 2007
- 4 min
The Year Of Anxiety
In China, they call it the Year of the Pig and reverentially the Year of the Golden Pig. It is a six hundred year cycle and betokens...
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- Mar 26, 2007
- 5 min
China’s Oil Quest Across India’s Cauvery Basin
As appeared in www.saag.org China’s oil quest is set to reach the Mannar area of Sri Lanka adjoining the likely oil/gas bearing Cauvery...
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- Mar 14, 2007
- 9 min
Stock Market – The Chinese Puzzle
The stock crisis in China blew up on 27th February 2007 and was duly named ‘Black Tuesday’. Financial commentators have a convention:...
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