“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.” IfsYearsLooksMadeCountryCharacterAbleLastsPovertyEconomyProgressGenerationsExampleGrewPercentEastIndianAsian1960sPhenomenalAsian Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.” IfsGivenCompanyRightsInfluencePercentMajorityGrantedIndianReachingUnfair Author:Tulsi Tanti
“Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.” IfsNeedsEnoughFactsGrowsGrowthFocusPercentAspectIndiaShipsChineseIndianGoodsManufacturingDelivery Author:Arjuna Mahendran
“I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not "playing anything" - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.” AbleMediaPercentHundredIndian Author:Trilok Gurtu
“The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.” ThinkingWayTwoOpportunityTechnologyEconomyGrowingPercentFlowTradeInvestmentRateEnormousChineseIndianTwo Ways Author:Manmohan Singh
“Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.” WritingGrewGrew UpPercentAreasPopulationIndianNativeIronicNative AmericanSixtyUrbanReservationsAmerican WriterUrban AreasIronic Things Author:Sherman Alexie