Shri PD Singh, CEO for India & South Asia Standard Chartered Bank, delivered a talk on ‘Economic & Banking Trends in South Asian Economies with Focus on India’. He underscored Growth Outlook, External Shocks & Domestic Drivers imperatives for India’s Economic Growth.
India's successful lunar mission (landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon) is another one of many straws in the wind showing its ascendence. As previously shown in my health index for countries, which is used to derive my projections for countries' next 10-year growth rates, India scores on top with a projected growth rate over the next 10 years of about 7%. It has the right mix of ingredients that shows that it has great potential and the right leadership to catalyze it. It reminds me a lot of China in 1984 (when I first went) around the time Deng Xiaoping made his reform and opening up policies that catalyzed China. Congratulations India!
Goldman Sachs says #India will overtake US to become world's 2nd-largest economy by 2075. On top of a burgeoning population, driving the forecast is country’s progress in innovation & technology, higher capital investment & a rising worker productivity. https://t.co/xmKtlPOmZ0
In another leap, Ladakh gets its very own football & track n field stadium with a capacity to seat 30000 spectators.
Built at an altitude of 11,000 feet above sea level, it is the highest-altitude football stadium in the country and among the top 10 in the world.
2/2. Henry, however, never committed to taking the fortress town of Harfleur by Oct 14. And, of course, BoE Gov Bailey's ultimate prize is to beat back the gilt traders in an against-all-odds Agincourt-style victory. My money, this time, is on the French.
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READ: Anju Bobby George wins World Athletics' Woman of Year Award
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1/ Lessons From The Tech Bubble:
Last year, I spent my winter holiday reading hundreds of pages of equity research from the 1999/2000 era, to try to understand what it was like investing during the bubble
A few people recently asked me for my takeaways. Here they are -
It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you. https://t.co/ylgC9i1wfp
Many who know of my son's death have been afraid to ask what happened. Others who don't have wondered why I've disappeared. Here is the story: https://t.co/Egjzj4u5TZ
Why are people getting antsy over @TIME magazine cover? Americans don't even know of @IndiaToday magazine (or @timesofindia for that matter). Even if they knew they wouldn't give it a second look. Inferiority complex drives our obsession with American/White media. Ignore.
I like to talk about what I call the Karma National Bank. If you help someone who’s in trouble, you’ve put a deposit in that bank. And sometime down the road, you may need to make a big withdrawal. ~ Ed Viesturs https://t.co/ge8ymg5tLI
It’s a bird...It’s a plane...Watch India’s first semi-high speed train built under ‘Make in India’ initiative, Vande Bharat Express zooming past at lightening speed.