This week, Maharashtra passes new policies reducing inspections, easing land transfer, and allowing direct sales by farmers to retailers; the center extends the deadline for implementing the Food Security Act again; Telangana is getting a National Investment and Manufacturing Zone; Uttar Pradesh extends industrial…
This week: states will be allowed to mine their own coal; Mumbai is causing trouble for high-speed rail; Rajasthan is restructuring its power utilities; Rajasthan will present SEB restructuring plan in its state assembly; the CAG questions Rajasthan’s policies to…
This week: the draft model Goods and Services Tax law is a compromise that could help move the tax over the finish line; President Mukherjee signs Gujarat’s controversial labor law reforms; Maharashtra firms can now self-certify on pollution controls; Maharashtra…
By Xinyi Yang & David A. Parker The “One Belt, One Road” (1BR) has quickly emerged as Chinese president Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy concept. An expansive effort anchored in planned infrastructure projects stretching across the Eurasian continent and even…
By Andrew Smith With the current international focus on events in the East China Sea, it’s easy for the United States to overlook a long-running problem well to the South. Australia doesn’t have that luxury. The mineral-rich Autonomous Region of…
By Guru Amrit Khalsa & Avanti Narayanan Increased Indian economic investment in Afghanistan would be a positive scenario from the perspective of the United States, India and Afghanistan: a win-win-win, so to speak. India’s contribution is especially important against the…
Who is he? Gary Gray was previously Australia’s special minister of state. He was elected to represent Brand in Western Australia in the House of Representatives during 2007 when current Ambassador to the United States Kim Beazley vacated the seat.…
Who is he? Sam Walsh is a well-known figure in the Australian mining industry. Walsh joined Rio Tinto, an Australian-British multinational mining company, in 1991 and was appointed director in 2009. Before joining Rio Tinto, Walsh spent 20 years working…
By Jeremiah O. Magpile Indonesia’s uncoordinated management of its natural resource sector and a climate of legal uncertainty is damaging government-investor relations in the mining sector, which contributes roughly 12 percent to Indonesia’s GDP. Natural resource investment is also a…
By Phuong Nguyen The attack by government forces November 29 against demonstrators protesting the Chinese-backed Letpadaung copper mine near Monywa in northwestern Myanmar quickly emerged as a national – and global –concern. The raid against protest camps around company headquarters…
