Gordon Brown''s plane will have barely departed New Delhi''s Indira Gandhi International Airport this month before Nicolas Sarkozy''s arrives with another contingent of executives seeking opportunities in India''s rapidly opening markets. The British prime minister and the French president, separately visiting the week of Jan. 20, are bringing along commercial delegations including retailers Tesco Plc and Carrefour SA, attracted by a burgeoning middle class and loosening curbs on foreign ownership in the nation of 1.1 billion people. Overseas investment in India may double in 2008 for a second straight year to reach $30 billion, the government forecasts, as the world''s second-fastest growing major economy arrives at what Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. calls its ``take- off'''' point. That''s when consumer demand and business spending start feeding off one another and drive even more investment.
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