Friday, December 29, 2006

Cuba has lessons for all of us

In fact, none of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations, around which global consulting giant Goldman Sachs has been creating major hype (that in the next 40 years combined, BRIC nations would be economically larger than G-6) have been ranked in the top 50 countries of the world. So forget overtaking the G-6, these countries should first attempt to learn some serious lessons on bettering the society from Cuba, a country with a life expectancy at birth of 75 years, a per capita expenditure on health at $252, with total health expenditure being 7.3% of GDP and an infant mortality rate, which is among the lowest in the region. If only the BRIC countries give a fraction of all the attention it gives to the predictions of American consulting giants and pseudo-development, these countries would have been far better place to live in.

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Monday, December 18, 2006

Born with nerves of steel

From manufacturers of small iron buckets to a whopping Rs.132 billion conglomerate, that’s the journey accomplished by the O. P. Jindal group till date. As O. P. Jindal had put it once, “A decade of liberalization has redefined business parameters. Jindal Stainless, the flagship company has harnessed these winds of change by offering world class products and services, not only in India but around the world.” Even the tough liberalization period did not deter the company from its track. The group patriarch has walked through this period with ease and in the process has managed to reserve the 548th berth in Forbes list of world billionaires.

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