I don't agree.
Take for example my home state Tamil Nadu (TN) in India.
TN car exports are about 380,000 (India total is around 700,000) in latest year.
TN population about 76 million, i.e why does 5% of india population export more than half the cars it does?
Extrapolate TN per capita car...
I've largely stopped paying attention to their establishment. Even their own people increasingly despise them.
I already knew what JF-17 was a long time ago, whatever they doll up for the propaganda at kamra means little to me.
Simply put if it were genuine, we would see a whole host more...
Bro, we (Turkish core membership here, myself and others) already talked/debated about this over 100's of pages in the economy thread.
Its not about being communist like its strict command economy or something.
Its about making competent policy decisions and creating strong balanced...
I have been following Turkish investment flows for some time.
Whatever the price was like, too much investment (and debt, loans and so on) went to real estate instead of production oriented sectors.
Studying Turkish economy first needs look at its gross fixed capital formation.
This rate was...
Highly distressing to read about. Some estimates are saying up to 20,000 may have perished or even more.
May all the victims rest in peace. All our thoughts and prayers are with Libyan people to heal and recover from this tragedy.
Their political situation w.r.t civil war exacerbating all of...
Our collective prayers continue for Moroccan nation and its efforts in rescue and recovery from the tragedy.
The Moroccan ambassador to India recently gave statement thanking India for its offer of help in whichever way Morocco may require.
It's here for reference: https://defencehub.live/threads/economy-updates.112/page-217#post-281311
Summary of it is its better to focus on investment in core industries first over real estate.
Any country (just like any collective or individual entity in general) wants to have maximum...
@Chocopie @urban mine @Windchime et al.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Hyundai-Samsung-develop-India-bases-for-Middle-East-Africa-exports
NEW DELHI -- South Korean conglomerates Hyundai Motor and Samsung Electronics are developing their Indian operations to boost sales in the...
On the subject, I get lot of my information on the details and challenges regarding all the countries involved from this channel (Asianometry) for some years now:
https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry/videos
He does a pretty objective job (and does some interesting analysis on other topics too...
Moved the semicondutor geopolitics chat to a better thread for it, one that @Bogeyman has diligently been updating a long while now:
https://defencehub.live/threads/what%E2%80%99s-harder-to-find-than-microchips-the-equipment-that-makes-them.10680/
Folks, please keep this thread strictly for...
There is pricing/time between these two (shipping and air). i.e trading off price and time.
Air gets really expensive for the amount transported, the items have to be very premium on timely delivery generally.
Thats why worldwide (where routing available for all) rail and road handle lot of...