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Population: 1,147,995,904
GDP (Purchasing power parity): $2.966 trillion
Debt: $149.2 billion
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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 7
  •  May 2010

Ajai Chowdhry

Chairman, HCL Infosystems

  • Vol 3 No 6
  •  April 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

  • Vol 3 No 6
  •  April 2010

For Punjabi farmers, an African frontier

African missions from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe were invited to a conference in Patiala in Punjab on 26-27 March with farmers from all over the region to examine the opportunities for utilising Indian agricultural technology and ...

  • Vol 3 No 5
  •  March 2010

East-West Highway to trouble

Political rivalries in Algiers deepen as Chinese companies are named in an anti-corruption probe into Africa’s biggest road project

  • Vol 3 No 5
  •  March 2010

Companies and contracts under scrutiny

There are four main strands to the sweeping the anti-corruption investigations launched in the wake of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s win with 90% of the votes cast in the elections on 9 April 2009: the review of the East-West Highway project now costed...

  • Vol 3 No 5
  •  March 2010

Monuc moves out

The United Nations announced in early March that it would begin to withdraw its peacekeeping mission, the Mission des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (Monuc) from Congo-Kinshasa. The first troop withdrawals are set for June with drawdown...

  • Vol 3 No 4
  •  February 2010

RITES not right

The renovation of Tanzania’s dilapidated railways stalls due to a dispute between the government and its Indian partners

  • Vol 3 No 4
  •  February 2010

Untoward Indian tillers

A US$40 million concessionary loan from the Indian government is mired in delays, a legal review and accusations of corruption. Moreover, the mix of army-owned enterprises, tied aid and squabbling agents around the deal is raising eyebrows in diplomati...

  • Vol 3 No 4
  •  February 2010

Anil Agarwal

Chairman, Vedanta Resources, India

  • Vol 3 No 3
  •  January 2010

Deconstructing Chindia

Delhi’s diplomats show how its brand of democracy and business differs from Beijing’s

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