On 06/08/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Lack of competition (of good service providers)
Or in other words, monopolies.
The government has been largely ineffective in controlling monopolies
in India - probably because in most industries, the biggest players
are government-owned at
On 8/7/2007 2:06 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
The government has been largely ineffective in controlling monopolies
in India - probably because in most industries, the biggest players
are government-owned at the moment (Telecom - BSNL, Banking - SBI,
Insurance - LIC etc.). The watchdog
On 07/08/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/7/2007 2:06 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
The government has been largely ineffective in controlling monopolies
in India - probably because in most industries, the biggest players
are government-owned at the moment
All:
Jeremiah Owyang has a rather interesting theory here. When I'm presented
with the opportunity (and I'll admit, its a rare one) I tend to fall
somewhere un-neatly between the Surfers, Boaters and the Fleet'ers.
But I'm curious how Owyang's theory factors in the secondary development
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 09:09 +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
But, as Eugen has pointed out, birth rates have fallen in such societies for
various reasons. I am guessing that birth rates will fall among the subset of
Indians who belong to the IT sector but continue to remain high among others.
note
In 1600, when the East India Company was founded, Britain was generating
1.8 per cent of the world's GDP, while India was producing 22.5 per
cent. By 1870, at the peak of the Raj, Britain was generating 9.1 per
cent, while India had been reduced for the first time to the epitome of
a Third
Some interesting charts at the URL below (registrattion required).
Udhay
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Energy_Resources_Materials/Strategy_Analysis/A_cost_curve_for_greenhouse_gas_reduction
A cost curve for greenhouse gas reduction
A global study of the size and cost of measures
to reduce
If Software Companies Ran the Country
by Jay Kinney
[This essay originally appeared in Whole Earth Review #57 (Winter
1987). It is now both terribly dated and still apt. It can be viewed,
perhaps, as ahead of its time. It earned hate mail when it first
appeared.]
The Shmoo has returned.
You
