Archive for January 15th, 2007

Trickle-down outsourcing

Jan 15, 2007 in India, Business & Economics

One troubling aspect of economic growth in Asia (particularly China and India) is that the development and progress it yielded has been concentrated almost exclusively in urban centers. But the emergence of business process outsourcing centers in India’s rural villages is one of the first signs that the poorest Asians are beginning to see the fruits of the growth around them.

“An army of Saddam Husseins”… in Bihar

Jan 15, 2007 in Iraq, India

People in Luckanow, a village in the Indian province of Bihar, are renaming their children Saddam Hussein in honor of the “martyred” Iraqi dictator.