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India / Economy
BMI View: For faster expansion, the economy needs a much more benign monetary policy environment than it currently has, and in the end this boils down to resolving the core problem of weak infrastructure. Without a major overhaul in the country's infrastructure development programme - which can now only be feasibly introduced by the next government - authorities will be forced...
2008-05-12India / Economy
The first stage of the Karnataka state elections began on May 10 in what has become a key gauge for the next national elections, due before May 2009. The election campaign was hard-fought,...
2008-05-12Sri Lanka / Economy
BMI View: Despite the economy's resilience in 2007, we envisage a deceleration of real GDP growth to 6.0% in 2008, because of the escalating civil war, high inflation, and the slowdown...
2008-04-14Business & Industry
BMI View: Asia's investment environment is one of the key strengths contributing to its rapid economic rise over the past few decades. In our business environment ratings it scores...
2006-08-07Bangladesh
Bangladesh is courting international investors, after reeling under the double blow of the devastating floods in 2004 and the expiry of the decades-old system of exports quotas this...
2005-06-13India
The first stage of the Karnataka state elections began on May 10 in what has become a key gauge for the next national elections, due before May 2009. The election campaign was hard-fought,...
2008-05-12India
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh kicked off the first ever Indo-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi on April 8 by announcing a Duty Free Tariff Preference Scheme for Least Developed Countries,...
2008-04-11Sri Lanka
Highways and Road Construction Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle was assassinated on April 6 by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber, in an incident which killed at least 13 others....
2008-04-11Pakistan
Pakistan has withdrawn its support as a civil party in a Swiss probe into alleged money laundering by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari. About CHF60.0mn (US$59.6mn)...
2008-04-10India
BMI View: For faster expansion, the economy needs a much more benign monetary policy environment than it currently has, and in the end this boils down to resolving the core problem...
2008-05-12Sri Lanka
BMI View: Despite the economy's resilience in 2007, we envisage a deceleration of real GDP growth to 6.0% in 2008, because of the escalating civil war, high inflation, and the slowdown...
2008-04-14Bangladesh
BMI View: Our growth forecast of 6.00% in FY07/08 (July-June) is subject to downside risks, owing to high inflation (which hit a 17-year high of 11.6% in December, before easing to...
2008-04-14India
BMI View: For faster expansion, the economy needs a much more benign monetary policy environment than it currently has, and in the end this boils down to resolving the core problem...
2008-04-11Pakistan
BMI View: The agreement by opposition leaders Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif to form a coalition government suggests that Pakistan will experience less political tension in the...
2008-03-10Pakistan
BMI View: Although apprehensions over security have eased sufficiently to permit the go-ahead of national and provincial elections on February 18, Pakistan will endure a renewal of...
2008-02-07Pakistan
As attention turns to whether opposition parties will gain sufficient support in February's postponed election to form a parliamentary majority, we note that while the Pakistan People's...
2008-01-10India
President Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule will not only lose him further support at home, but will also severely damage foreign diplomatic ties with Pakistan's...
2007-11-05
