India

Population: 1,147,995,904
GDP (Purchasing power parity): $2.966 trillion
Debt: $149.2 billion
Overview:

With Indian diplomats like Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor and former Ambassador to Ethiopia Gurjit Singh giving Africa a higher profile in Delhi, India has agreed to provide $5.4 bn. in concessional finance for African projects. Outbid at most turns by other state-owned Asian companies, ONGC Videsh is still looking to make a big investment in the Gulf of Guinea.

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  • Vol 3 No 9
  • 01/07/2010

Beijing gazumps New Delhi

China's state companies advance billion-dollar oil and banking deals while India's plans are now on hold

  • Vol 3 No 9
  • 01/07/2010

Take the diamonds and run

A fly-by-night Indian company registered in Hong Kong has packed its bags and disappeared after mining diamonds and not paying taxes for more than four years. Kasaï Oriental's Direction Provinciale des Recettes (DPR) and the parastatal diamond mi...

  • Vol 3 No 9
  • 01/07/2010

Manoj Kohli

Chief Executive Officer (International Operations), Bharti Airtel

  • Vol 3 No 8
  • 01/06/2010

Fertile fields for India

The Addis government shows scant regard for the potential local impact of massive Indian investment in floriculture and biofuels

  • Vol 3 No 8
  • 01/06/2010

Taxing times

Port Louis suspends six forex companies as talks resume on the tax treaty that allows Indian companies to launder illicit funds

  • Vol 3 No 8
  • 01/06/2010

S.M. Krishna

Minister for External Affairs, India

  • Vol 3 No 7
  • 01/05/2010

Round-trips and hot money

Indian companies are routing tens of billions of dollars through Mauritius each year in a giant tax avoidance scheme

  • Vol 3 No 7
  • 01/05/2010

Tweeting Tharoor and the cricket controversy

Minister of State for External Affairs for Africa Shashi Tharoor considered himself a modern diplomat for his embracing of the internet messaging website Twitter. Yet his tweets from Liberia and Mauritius did little more than rankle Delhi’s chattering c...

  • Vol 3 No 7
  • 01/05/2010

Ajai Chowdhry

Chairman, HCL Infosystems

  • Vol 3 No 6
  • 01/04/2010

Wanted: special partners

Delhi offers cooperation, capacity building and, of course, cash in the unspoken competition with China for African hearts, minds and resources

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