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Obama’s Indian Odyssey
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8 November 2010U.S. & India: the Indispensable Partnership BY Office of the Press Secretary

The U.S.-India partnership is indispensable to addressing the challenges of our times.  This strategic relationship encompasses a range of issues, activities, and programs that reflect the

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3 December 2010This is how economic reforms have transformed India BY

Perhaps the most appropriate tribute to the memory of the illustrious parliamentarian, Professor Hiren Mukerjee, would consist in the celebration of Indian democracy of which the Lok Sabha itself

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India economy growth
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liberalisation
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4 February 2011Food Prices and Global Instability BY Toni Johnson

Food prices are skyrocketing across the world, and last month, they peaked to the highest levels since the UN's

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Egypt protests
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emerging markets
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food prices
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G20
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13 January 2011How to Stop the Rise in Food Price Volatility BY Hafez Ghanem

Food prices have been fluctuating wildly over the last four years, hurting both consumers and producers. Changing petroleum prices, crop yields, food stock levels, and exchange rates are the

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Commodity exchange
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export restrictions
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food prices
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20 May 2011The new trade routes: India

India is reinvigorating its trading relationships in an attempt to regain lost ground after decades of isolation, inward-looking policies and red tape.  Twenty

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drugs
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foreign investment
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India
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Indo-China
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Technology
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Trade
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1 March 2011India and South Africa as partners for development in Africa? BY Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

India and South Africa are both competitors and potential partners; they are developing countries playing a leadership role in the South, but in fact also display substantial differences in

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Development
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energy security
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IBSA
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Indo-South Africa
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terrorism
Op-EdsOp-Eds
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19 June 2011Afghanistan’s last locavores BY Patricia McArdle

Many urban Americans idealize “green living” and “slow food.” But few realize that one of the most promising models for sustainable living is not to be found on organic farms in the United States

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Renewable Energy
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solar energy
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sustainable development
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24 June 2011Partnering for food security BY

The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Global Food Price Index soared to its highest-ever level in February 2011, in both real and nominal terms. This dramatic rise was driven mostly by higher

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CAADP
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EXIM bank
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food security
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Global Food Price Index
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India-Africa Forum Summit
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Indo-Africa
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irrigation
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NEPAD
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Tanzania
ArticlesArticles
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21 June 2010Asian giants can’t let social vanity dictate development BY

Should China continue to remain the world's factory? Or should it replicate the Indian model and concentrate on service outsourcing?

The debate itself is not new. What is new is that the

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consumption
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Economic development
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food security
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Indian economy
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service outsourcing
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social progress
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1 January 2011Green revolutions for sub-Saharan Africa? BY Diana Hunt and Michael Lipton

In the last 60 years the population of sub-Saharan Africa almost quadrupled and the area cultivated rose by a quarter. Progress was slow because many farmers felt that investment was often

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Africa
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agriculture
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Asia
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Green Revolution
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Land Reforms

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1 May 2012
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Foreign AffairsForeign Affairs
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