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MUMBAI, India - In the days after the Indian elections on May 16, until the finance minister’s speech on July 6, the nation discussed only one subject: the budget of the incoming government. The Congress Party, reelected to power after holding office for the past five years, had won a large enough majority of parliamentary seats to create a governing coalition free of leftists—like members of the Communist Party—who had slowed market reforms in the past. The new government, more moderate and centrist in composition than in its past term, won such...
...significant fiscal stimulus plans, expanding rural employment, and development programs, he did not mention any specific open-market reforms, such as raising foreign investment levels, divestment of public enterprise, or deficit reduction. After Mukherjee had signaled to the entire nation that he would follow through on these reforms, the speech was a major disappointment...
...someone offering few substantive changes, the finance minister seemed awfully proud in his speech, congratulating his party on avoiding the worst of the financial crisis. Yet, smug as he might have been, the reality is grim: According to the World Bank, in 2005 456 million Indians still lived in poverty. Mukherjee’s plans to combat this are well intentioned, but will only temporarily help to alleviate the plight of the poor. It will take the spread of private industry and finance to permanently raise their standard of living...
...July 14 - that he's seeking $12 billion over the next decade to beef up funding for these two-year institutions, which educate nearly half of U.S. undergrads - but you'd never know it from the crickets in medialand. CNN and Fox devoted no live airtime to the speech, which Obama delivered at Michigan's Macomb Community College, while MSNBC cut back to the Sotomayor confirmation hearings partway through. The fear of eyeballs glazing over isn't surprising: glamorous these trade schools are not. But there's a good reason why Obama calls community colleges "one of America's underappreciated...
...little-noted speech in London on July 11, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana - a key figure in the "Quartet" of the U.S., E.U., U.N. and Russia that is overseeing the peace process - said that if the parties were unable to bring the conflict to an end in the very near future, the international community would have to impose a solution. "The mediator has to set the timetable too," Solana said. "If the parties are not able to stick to it, then a solution backed by the international community should be put on the table...