India

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 4 No 8
June 2011

Manmohan Singh: A reforming economist

Prime Minister, India

Vol 4 No 7
May 2011

Chasing China

Indian diplomats cannot stop talking about Chinese operations in Africa and are getting more serious about trying to outdo them

Vol 4 No 7
May 2011

Sanjay Kirloskar

Chairman and Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Scandals continue to bring Indian investigators to Mauritius’s fine shores. After last year’s cricket financing scandal (AAC Vol 3 No 7), India’s biggest-ever corruption case – linked to the awarding of second-generation telecommunications licences – has ...

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

What’s mine is mine

In November 2010, India’s Essar group (through its Mauritian subsidiary) announced it would take a 54% stake from the government of Zimbabwe in its long-troubled iron and steel works Zisco. This came as a surprise: Indo-South African group Mittal Arcelor ...

Vol 4 No 3
January 2011

‘An emerging priority’

New Delhi’s diplomats struggle to offer Africa something that Beijing and Washington do not

Vol 4 No 3
January 2011

Sriprakash Jaiswal

Deputy Minister of Coal

Vol 4 No 2
December 2010

Digging deeper

New Delhi wants to beat its international competitors in the race for new oil concessions by building strategic partnerships with Angola and Sudan

Vol 4 No 1
November 2010

Ravi Ruia

Co-founder and Vice-Chairman, Essar Group

Vol 3 No 12
October 2010

India follows China’s lead

Wherever China goes in Nigeria, India tends not to be too far behind. Chinese contractors may have landed all of the major railway deals in Nigeria (AAC Vol 3 No 4), but Indian manufacturers are supplying some of the rolling stock.

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