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    Indians Retire sooner than Japanese, Claim Double the Paid Leave to Chinese !

    by Viral Dholakia

    While surfing social networking platform G+, today I stumbled across some really interesting piece of statistical data on Ken’s page with regards to crucial trends in finance for Indian and overseas market. One such aspect, the ‘Retirement Age’, is widely analyzed in the world of finance – as most

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    Growing Asian Affluence: India & China Have More Affluent People Than Major European Countries!

    by Ankit Agarwal

    The global economic recession in later part of 2008 hit all economies negatively and there was nothing positive to write home about. However, if there was one positive that emerged from the crisis it was the emergence of Asia as a economic powerhouse. Countries like India and China for

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    Precious Metal Investments: Gold vs. Silver vs. Platinum [Comparison]

    by Viral Dholakia

    For a layman, the brilliant gleam of platinum, silver and white gold is hard to differentiate apart, just by the virtue of observation. But, with the gold prices soaring sky-high, for those who prefer something other than the traditional gold for jewellery purposes, these three metals can come to

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    China to Play a Larger Role at IMF – The Dragon is Roaring!

    by Ankit Agarwal

    If you think China stands for cheap electronic knock-offs, think again! China is fast emerging as a global economic powerhouse. The most populous country has come a long way from being an extremely close economy to a one that the world now takes notice of. In what could be

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    Are Emerging Markets Losing Their Sheen?

    by Ankit Agarwal

    The title might sound a tad extreme but despite all the positive growth signs in Emerging Markets, there is a possibility wherein the emerging markets could face roadblocks going forward. It is no surprise that emerging markets were the fastest to recover from the economic crisis in 2008 that

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    BRICS Summit: Emerging economies sideline US Dollar!

    by Viral Dholakia

    Brazil, Russia, South Africa, India and China – the leaders of all five emerging market economies met on the margins of the BRICS Summit in China to discuss their role in world affairs, energy and food security challenges, climate changes and hardening commodity prices. Sidelining US Dollar! Furthermore, the role

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    India & China – Comparison of two Asian Giants

    by Viral Dholakia

    In the Indian cricket team, both Sehwag and Gambhir are prolific opening batsmen. But, when Sehwag is on the song, Gambhir’s performance is almost over-shadowed by his partner’s fast-paced innings. But, both the players gel-up very well while running between the wickets and mutual understanding. They set the tone

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    Can India replicate Chinese model of creating Manufacturing hubs?

    by Viral Dholakia

    First things first – India is, now, one of the top 10 industrial nations of the world with a 1.5% share in manufacturing value added (MVA), according to the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2011 report. While the MVA of industrialized countries grew by 3.4% in 2010; that of

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    Introducing Mandarin in India! – Would they teach Hindi there?

    by Aseem Rastogi

    Our politicians are coming up with new and weird ideas by the day. Kapil Sibal would surely go down in the history of Indian politics as one of the most active education ministers in terms of work. When I say active, I mean that he has continuously come up

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    Can India Beat China?

    by Rishabh

    Last night, I was reading about Professor Jagdish Bhagwati (renowned professor on Indian Political Economy at Columbia University) who quotes that ‘we will more or less become what China is today and that will make us the fourth largest or maybe even third economy in the world’. The answer

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