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 2 No 6
April 2009

Old King Coal

Japanese and Indian interest in Mozambican coal is growing and export prices are rising again. In a deal in March between the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance and Japan's Nippon Steel with coal, the price of coal was fixed at US$129 a tonne for the Ja...

Vol 2 No 6
April 2009

Pradeep Kumar Chaudhery

Additional Secretary, Commerce and Industry Ministry, India

Vol 2 No 5
March 2009

A target of the revolution

After the Madagascar imbroglio, South Korean and Indian companies are trying new tactics

Vol 2 No 4
February 2009

What's yours is mine and...

India's gain may prove to be South Korea's loss as local political shifts hit Nigeria's oil business

Vol 2 No 4
February 2009

T.C. Venkat Subramanian

Chairman, India Exim Bank

Vol 2 No 3
January 2009

Delhi defies the downturn

India's ministers predict that trade with Africa will hit US$100 billion, but it will take many more deals and deeper import and export diversification

Vol 2 No 2
December 2008

Deepak Kapoor

23rd Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army

Vol 2 No 1
November 2008

Kamal Nath

Commerce and Industry Minister, India

Vol 1 No 12
October 2008

Permission to come on board?

The deployment against the pirates will entail an upgrade of India's fleet and the overcoming of legal obstacles

Vol 1 No 12
October 2008

Reverse thrust

South Africa's MTN is eyeing India's Aircel with its 13 million subscribers in 10 of India's 12 telecom circles

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