In 2009 "India maintained robust growth (6.7%) without Beijing's hefty stimulus of $585 billion in part because it is less exposed to the international economy. China's exports represented 35% of GDP compared with only 24% for India in 2008. Thus India was afforded more protection from the worst effects of...
India CEOs supremely confident
Top executives of companies are generally a sanguine bunch. But the economic crisis of 2008 shook their confident about future prospects and the recovery in confidence has not been uniform. According the 2010 Price Waterhouse Survey of 1,198 CEOs, 81 per cent of CEOs worldwide are confident of their prospects...
India's Perception Gap exceeded only by China and Russia
The Reputation Institute of the UK asked residents of more than 30 countries rate their home country on the basis of “overall respect, trust, esteem, admiration and good feelings” and also to rate other countries on similar measures The “Reputation Gap” plots the difference between the two sets of scores...
Prosperity Index, India ranks at 47th of 104
India ranked 45th in the internationally respected 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index - which embraces social and political data to provide a wider measure of national success. The purpose of the Prosperity Index is to encourage policymakers, scholars, the media, and the interested public to take a holistic view of prosperity...