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AGRO FOOD - EXPORT STATISTICS

Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, New Delhi, 2007

AUTOMOBILES

Shifting gears: new industry observations from McKinsey's automotive experts

This collection consists of the most-requested articles that have appeared on McKinsey & Company's Automotive & Assembly Extranet over the past years. The topics range widely from strategy to operations to marketing and sales. Also included is a section on special issues facing specific regions and countries - offering further proof of the global scope of the automotive industry and of the challenges ahead.

Indian automotive components industry; Strategic imperative; Building operational excellence; Moving the metal; Becoming local, globally, Innovation

AUTOMOBILES

This publication gives insights into the challenges currently facing the automotive industry and suggests levers to address these challenges. It will therefore help OEMs and suppliers manage automotive electronics effectively.

Automotive electronics, Strategic market management, Electronics architecture, Automotive innovations management

Social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community of India [Chairperson: Justice Rajindar Sachar]

Prime Minister's High Level Committee report on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India.

Sachar committee report , Muslim community , Muslim OBC , Government employment

The study highlights the growing importance within the business community of corporate responsibility as both a key indicator of non-financial performance, as well as a driver of financial performance. It also reaffirms that business has the responsibility to be transparent and accountable not just to shareholders but also to the wider community and the environment.

Corporate Environment Responsibility, Corporate social responsibility, Sustainability reporting procedure, Environment

CREATIVE INDUSTRY

This is an exceptional book in three respects. First, it is a book about management that truly appreciates the creative process. Second, it is a book about creativity that understands and seeks to engage with practical business realities. And, finally, Management and Creativity actually proves its own thesis: that the best thinking occurs when the worlds of "creativity" and "business" intersect.'

Management, Creative ability in business, Creative systems, The politics of creativity, Creative marketing to creative consumption

DOING BUSINESS - CZECH REPUBLIC

A documentary profile on doing business in the Czech Republic, articulating the emerging business areas and important business contacts.

Czech Republic, Finance, Insurance, Taxes, Human sources, Services for foreign entrepreneurs, Doing business in Czech Republic

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2007

OECD's first economic survey of the Indian economy. It opens with a broad overview of economic developments over the past twenty years, showing how India has grown to become the third largest economy in the world. It then examines a series of specific policy areas including the unbalanced growth across states, competition policy and reforming India's product and service markets, improving the performance of labour markets, improving the financial system, improving the fiscal system, improving infrastructure, and upgrading the educational system. For each policy area, a series of recommendations is made.

Economic reforms - India, Improving - Labour markets in India, Infrastructure, Education

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it

Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines a much needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nation between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a set of traps that snare these countries, including civil war, a dependence on the extraction and export of natural resources, and bad governance. Standard solutions do not work against these traps, he writes; aid is often ineffective, and globalization can actually make matters worse, driving development to more stable nations. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. If failed states are ever to be helped, the G8 will have to adopt preferential trade policies, new laws against corruption, and new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions. As former director of research for the World Bank and current Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, Paul Collier has spent a lifetime working to end global poverty. In The Bottom Billion, he offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.

Economics, Development and growth, Developing countries, Poverty - developing countries

ECONOMIC RELATIONS - INDIA & SOUTH AFRICA

India calling 2007: India-South Africa business conclave [1-3 August 2007: Johannesburg]

This discussion note prepared by KPMG aims to highlight India and South Africa's attractiveness for investment, emerging businesses and service opportunities. It illustrates sectoral opportunities in both countries and provides a roadmap for enhancing bilateral trade by leveraging synergies, and participating in each other's growth story.

India and South Africa - an economic overview, Banking and finance, Infrastructure and power, Energy, IT and ITES, Media, Entertainment, Sports, Mining, Diamond, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Vocational education and training, Small and medium enterprises, Travel and tourism, Economic relations - India & South Africa

ENERGY

India energy yearbook (formerly Power India yearbook) attempts to present comprehensive information on energy sector as a whole. 

Energy, electricity and nuclear power estimates for the period upto 2030

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a new report Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power for the Period up to 2030. According to the report the share of nuclear power energy in the world was less than 1% in 1960. In 2006 the share of electricity generated worldwide by nuclear power increased to 15%. The report claims that this tendency will continue over the next several decades with new nuclear power plants being built mostly in Asia.

India Cleantech Forum: cleantech solutions for sustainable development [3 August 2007: New Delhi]

CII ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, New Delhi, 2007

Clean technology, Environment, Pollution control, Renewable energy, Environmental monitoring & measuring, Clean technology market in India, Financing clean technology projects

Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey is a fascinating book, a deserving winner of several prizes: the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, and the Smith Book/Books in Canada First Novel Award. The story of Gustad Noble, a moral man trying to cope with life's difficulties, is both involving and multi-layered....Read the Review

Family matters

Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2002

In Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry, Nariman Vakeel is a 79-year old widower in Bombay who was already suffering from Parkinson's Disease when he falls and breaks his ankle. Bedridden and unable to care of even his basic needs, his care initially falls to his stepdaughter Coomy, who just wants to be rid of him. She foists Nariman off on his daughter, Roxanna, and his arrival in the small apartment she shares with her husband and children creates a large stress on her family. Roxanna sees to all her father's needs while her husband, uncomfortable with the whole situation, seeks meaning to his life outside the home. A finalist for the 2002 Booker Prize, Family Matters explores themes of family, the reversal of care between generations as they age, and the thin line between middle class and poverty in modern India. The Boston Globe calls this "an emotionally satisfying, deeply moving novel."

English fiction , Novel, Family

The novel follows the story of four families over a period of 18 months as a mother searches for a suitable boy to marry her daughter. At 1349 pages and 591,552 words, the book is the longest novel ever published in a single volume in the English language. A suitable boy centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, with a “suitable boy”. At the heart of the novel it is a love story, set in a young, newly independent India. Lata is a 19 year old college girl, vulnerable, yet determined to have her own way, and not be influenced by her strong mother and opinionated brother, Arun. Her story revolves around the choice she is forced to make between her suitors, Kabir, Haresh and Amit...

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her...

The memory keeper's daughter

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter as a commentary on love and hope, focusing on the relationship between Caroline and her adopted child, Phoebe. For those readers, Caroline is a force for change and rights for her daughter, insisting the world see Phoebe as a person capable of learning and of ability...The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is both an exploration of grief and loss and a meditation on the power of love. Most importantly, though, it is a study of humanity.

The last song of dusk

The Last Song of Dusk is a tale of exquisite friendships, immense sacrifices and dangerous desires. Told with tenderness and with dazzling wit, it will haunt you long after you have turned the final page...

The namesake

The novel describes the struggles between first-generation Bengali immigrants to the United States, and their children, particularly their son, Gogol. The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta and settle in Central Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through a series of errors, their son's nickname, Gogol, becomes his official birth name, an event which will shape many aspects of his life. The novel examines the nuances involved with being caught between two conflicting cultures with their highly distinct religious, social, and ideological differences...

Ladies coupe

At 45, Akhila awakes one day with a "fight-or-flight" notion. So she boards a train's ladies coupe (a segregated, second-class compartment found on most overnight Indian trains until 1998) and journeys from Bangalore to Kanyakumari. After her father's death many years ago, she became the head of her family's household. Breadwinner and martyr, she has sacrificed her desires to fulfill her family's wants and needs. A question has long weighed on her mind: Can a woman live without a man and be happy? The women Akhila meets on the train car respond with their life experiences. Nair's novel is feminist, but it is much more than that as Nair sensitively explores the intimate feelings of her women characters not only in vivid descriptions of their Indian lives, but also in the pleasure they take in something as simple as enjoying a forbidden egg. Nair is a powerful writer, who through this tender story shows great understanding and compassion for all women and for the choices and regrets they cannot avoid.

The memory keeper's daughter

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter as a commentary on love and hope, focusing on the relationship between Caroline and her adopted child, Phoebe. For those readers, Caroline is a force for change and rights for her daughter, insisting the world see Phoebe as a person capable of learning and of ability...The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is both an exploration of grief and loss and a meditation on the power of love. Most importantly, though, it is a study of humanity.

GENERAL READINGS

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.
In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life - money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You will begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.
The secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers-men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. 
As you read The Secret, you will come to know how you can have, be, or do anything you want. You will come to know who you really are. You will come to know the true magnificence that awaits you in life.

GENERAL READINGS - AUTOBIOGRAPHY

In Romancing with Life, the first-ever full-fledged memoir by a leading Bollywood star, he tells his remarkable life story—no less dramatic and gripping than any of his films—like only he can. Here are tales from Dev’s youth in 1930s Gurdaspur and Lahore; his years of struggle in 1940s Bombay; his friendship with Guru Dutt and his doomed romance with Suraiya; his marriage to co-star Kalpana Kartik; his relationships with his brothers Chetan—who brought him to Bombay—and Vijay Anand—who directed him in hit after hit, with S.D. and R.D. Burman, who provided the memorable music for his films, with his compatriots Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, to both of whom he was very close, and with his heroines, from Geeta Bali, Madhubala, Meena Kumari, Nutan, Vyjayanthimala, Mumtaz and Hema Malini to Waheeda Rehman, Zeenat Aman and Tina Munim, all of whom he launched.

INDIA - GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

The story of an extraordinary emotional adventure… In 1997, on the fiftieth anniversary of India's independence, Shashank Mani, an IIT alumnus, organized a train journey across India. The purpose – to get a sense of how the country had changed in the past fifty years of independence, and what needed to be accomplished in the future. On this twenty-two day journey, in a specially chartered train, were 200 Indians from different walks of life – young men and women whose commitment would help shape the country's future. As they travelled, they discussed among themselves the issues that bothered them as citizens, and possible solutions. They came up with ideas on how best to fight corruption and kindle a new spirit of entrepreneurship. There was a reaffirmation of love for the country, tempered by an awareness of just how much more needed to be done, whether it was in population control or in protecting the environment. In a world suffering the first signs of an 'industrial hangover', the developmental models discovered during the journey offered the participants new and pragmatic alternatives. As India enters its sixtieth year of independence – and as the original 1997 team plans one more ambitious journey across India – this story is a fitting reminder of where we once were and where we need to head.

India - Growth and development, Change after Independence, Challenges ahead

INSPIRATIONAL READINGS

Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches 1943-1945 ( Subhas Chandra Bose )

This volume presents collected works of Netaji's speeches and writings as leader of the Azad Hind movement from June 1943 to August 1945. His stirring speeches in Singapore, Malaya, and Burma electrified massive audiences of civilians and soldiers, united Indians of all religions, and inspired them to join the march towards Delhi.

History and politics, International relations, South Asian history, Speeches of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

INSPIRATIONAL READINGS

Businesses go through dramatic twists and turns. Some survive, while quite a few fall by the way-side. Corporate heads grapple with this and are keen to find a sustainable model for making organisations last. Dabawalas, the story of Mumbai's ubiquitous homemade food delivery men stand in sharp contrast. A 115-year-old business enterprise, run by semiliterate group of people, that has sustained itself through the vicissitudes of change presents a role model. Through a dialogue between four characters, the book brings to the fore key characteristics of successful organisations- values, decentralised decision-making, continuous value addition to customer care and many more. Besides this, the book includes take-aways for leaders and managers to imbibe for building lasting success based on values.

INSPIRATIONAL READINGS

Deepak Chopra, the preeminent voice of Eastern philosophy in the West, now offers his remarkable insights on the inspiring life of one of the world's most important figures - the Buddha. This re-imagining of the Buddha's life presents a new form of teaching from the author, who shows how the iconic journey of the prince who became the Buddha has changed the world forever, and how the lessons he taught continue to influence every corner of the world.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Trade and investment rule-making: the role of regional and bilateral agreements

This volume reports on a study undertaken by the UNU research and training programme CRIS that builds upon the previous Samson and Woolcock research. This book aims to contribute to a major and growing area of study by analysing how RTAs shape the international regimes for investment, rules of origin, agriculture, food safety, intellectual property and services.

International Trade and investment, , Role of regional and bilateral agreements, IPRs in a TRIPs, International investment rules, Rule-making in agricultural trade

This volume of the Indian Labour Statistics 2005, which is the 33rd edition in the series, presents serial statistics regarding labour in India.

Population census , Employment , Employment service and training , Wages and earnings , Price index numbers , Trade unions , Industrial injuries , Absenteeism and labour turnover , Social security , Industrial disputes , International comparison

LEADERSHIP

The 360 Leader : developing your influence from anywhere in the organization

Leadership, Management, 360 degree leaders, Developing leadership qualities

LEADERSHIP

This book is a collection of case studies on customer responsiveness and extracts from inspirational and thought-provoking lectures delivered at "CEO Forum for Customer Responsiveness Sessions and Round Tables."

India pharma 2015 : unlocking the potential of the Indian pharmaceuticals market

This report states that India may overtake Brazil, Mexico and Turkey to rank among the world's 10 largest pharmaceutical markets by 2015 as rising incomes and a diabetes epidemic spur demand for drugs. India's pharmaceutical market may expand by more than 12 percent a year, reaching $20 billion by 2015 from $6.3 billion a decade earlier.

Indian pharmaceuticals market , Pharmaceuticals products , Medical products

RETAIL BUSINESS

The rural market in India is undergoing a silent but definite revolution on the back of enhanced purchasing power of rural consumers, the changing consumption patterns and increasing overall value of consumption of goods and services...

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The state of the panchayats: a mid-term review and appraisal [22 November 2006]

The theme paper highlights, Indian steel industry scenario, Scenario in Chhattisgarh, Sponge iron sectors - growth, Coal policies in India, Coking coal requirement, Private sector captive coal mining, Debate over ore export.

TRADE AND INVESTMENT

Since his appointment as India's Minister of Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath has delivered scores of speeches on a variety of economic issues, particularly trade and investment. He has spoken at gathering of nations, inter-governmental conclaves, international business meets and to groups of parliamentarians, students and journalists.
This collection of statements is a virtual record of the process of change that India has witnessed in recent years. It is a fascinating account of the evolution of modern Indian economic power.

Indian Industry, Indian economy, Economic growth, WTO and Multilateral trade concerns, Bilateral and regional trade, Investment Promotion, Globalisation, Emerging markets, Sector specific concerns

WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT

In the 21st century, agriculture continues to be a fundamental instrument for sustainable development and poverty reduction. Three of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas—2.1 billion living on less than $2 a day and 880 million on less than $1 a day—and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Given, where they are and what they do best, promoting agriculture is imperative for meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty and hunger by 2015 and reducing poverty and hunger for several decades thereafter. Agriculture alone will not be enough to massively reduce poverty, but it is an essential component of effective development strategies for most developing countries, says World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development.

Development and development, Performance of agriculture sector, Agri market, Innovation, Education and skills for rural development, Rural development, Agriculture and health, Food security, Mitigating of climate change in agriculture, Emerging national agendas, Strengthening governance

WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT

World investment report 2007: transnational corporations, extractive industries and development

The World Investment Report 2007 focuses on the role of transnational corporations in extractive industries, and documents their presence in many of the world's poorest economies.

FDI and international production, Regional trends, Transnational corporations, Extractive industries and development, Government Policy and institutional frarmework