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Thank God Columbus Lost His Way

Pranay Sharma November 8, 2010
India once walked a foreign-relations tightrope between the Soviet Union and the United States, yet was still inspired by the younger nation's culture, education and democratic principles. Two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, India finds itself on a similar tightrope with the US alone. “Our contradictory emotions about America explain why it hasn’t outraged us as much as it should...

Qualms Arise Over Outsourcing Of Electronic Medical Records

Amol Sharma, Ben Worthen November 8, 2010
Digitizing health records improves care, reduces errors and saves money in redundant testing or treatment. In an effort to reduce costs, the US health care reform law includes incentives, with billions in government funding, for providers and hospitals to rely on electronic medical records. Only 20 percent of US hospitals now rely on electronic records. Analysts anticipate that hospitals will not...

India and China Take Different Roads to World Leadership – Part I

Shyam Saran November 1, 2010
Many anticipate China and India, with their rapid rise to power through globalization, to adopt global leadership roles. Yet expectations that either nation will lead the way in resolving global problems may be too high and too premature, suggests this YaleGlobal series. Historically a crossroads of culture, India adapts to globalization's modern forms, explains Shyam Saran, former foreign...

India-Ohio Outsourcing Ban

Rupa Chanda October 8, 2010
As US job creation remains stymied, governments at all levels enact protectionist measures. For example, the US has hiked fees for H1B visas for foreign professional workers, and with an unemployment rate exceeding 10 percent, the state of Ohio has banned outsourcing of IT or back-office work in government-funded projects, reports the East Asia Forum. Firms in India that bristle about such...

Bangladesh, “Basket Case” No More

Sadanand Dhume October 5, 2010
With the 1947 end of British colonial rule in India, Muslim-majority territories were created as a separate state, broken into East and West Pakistan. The eastern wing, more than 1000 kilometers from the west, pursued autonomy. At the end of a bloody war of resistance backed by Indian independents, Bangladesh emerged in 1971. Since then, the nation has pursued economic development, forswearing...

Australia Gets Money, China Gets Australia

Malcolm Knox September 20, 2010
Chinese investment and trade in Australia have grown rapidly. Australian metals and fuels flow to China to help power industrial growth. The scale involved – the costs, the tons moved each day – buoys the Australian economy during a time of global recession. Yet while most Australians deem China’s role as positive, a majority also worries about an over-reliance on such investment. While Australia...

Google, Skype Targeted in India Security Crackdown

Erika Kinetz September 3, 2010
India is asking all companies that provide encrypted communications to place servers inside its borders so security officials can monitor user data. Increasingly, countries make demands on foreign firms producing goods and services desired by their citizens. “India seems to be gaining confidence in its own attractiveness as a market, taking a tougher stance with international companies, not just...