Fdi In Developing Economies

• BJP's 'Modi-festo' headlines economy, downplays Ram Mandir

  Narendra Modi, the frontrunner for prime minister, today promised good governance and inclusive development as his BJP released its much-delayed manifesto on the first day of polling for the nine-phase general election.

• Cabinet allows FDI in insurance, pension sectors; will these big bang reforms pass the Parliament test?

  Soon after the Union Cabinet approved opening up the insurance and pensions sectors to foreign investors last evening, Finance Minister P Chidambaram reached out to the Opposition saying he was optinistics that the opposition,"especially the principle opposition," or the BJP, would help pass the new Bills through discussion and negotiaton. The Manm...

• Big bang reforms again: Cabinet allows FDI in insurance, pension sectors

  In a second round of bold reforms , the government today took big steps to open up the insurance and pensions sectors to foreign investors and prove it's determined to push the economy into turn-around mode. However, these proposals will have to be cleared by parliament. Opposition parties are against the reforms; so, supposedly, are some allies of...