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...every day you get invited to the Prime Minister of India's house for tea. As part of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, which opened in India a few days ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked a hundred or so delegates to tea on the lawn of his residence Sunday evening. Guests were bused to the PM's New Delhi house and escorted along a path beneath trees that teamed with chirping Indian Mynah birds and the occasional peacock to a meeting room where the softly spoken Singh gave a short formal address. India's economy has experienced...
...Which is not to question Prime Minister Singh's sincerity. He has been linking growth and ending poverty for at least two decades and is directing a lot of the government's energies into helping the rural poor. But change, especially in India's most neglected areas, takes time - and Indians want better lives now, not tomorrow. Television and better communications, especially the incredible spread of mobile phones, has given India's poor a small taste of the life they are missing...
...breakfast the following morning, Anupam Yog, a consultant at India Brand Equity Foundation, a quasi-government body behind selling India and Indian companies abroad, acknowledged the problems. On a recent visit to Brazil with Singh he was taken by the high crime rates in Brazilian cities. "That's what income disparity can lead to and we need to avoid that here," he says. He agrees that India's success story is still full of qualifications: hundreds of millions still surviving on less than a dollar a day, tens of millions still illiterate and unschooled. "We don't shy away from...
...largest steel producer in the world?was "eau de cologne" compared with the "perfume" of Arcelor. But India's forays abroad have so far proved less controversial than those launched from that other emerging economic superpower, China. According to Sanjaya Baru, an adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, that's because major Chinese companies are usually partly or wholly owned by government entities, which can raise doubts about their management's motives. "Private companies in India are private," Baru says. "They are not an extension of the government...
Another deterrent is India's lack of a big-time pro league. "My dad would prefer that we study," says Divya Singh, 24, who plays on the national team with four of her sisters. "What's the point of spending all your time playing basketball if you can't get a job?" Corporate and government-sponsored teams often give players clerical jobs. Singh, for example, files and answers phones for MTM Telecom. Players earn benchwarmer salaries: Singh makes about $3,500 a year, and male players earn about $4,800, far less than the $15,000 for an entry-level...