Bharti shares some administrative functions with the U.S. company.

WSJ: Wal-Mart Hits Obstacle to Growth in India

Business journalists have taken to producing glowing profiles of self-effacing and self-denying bosses such as Haruka Nishimatsu, the boss of Japan Airlines, who travels to work on the bus and pays himself less than his pilots, and Mike Eskew, the former boss of UPS, who flew coach and shares an administrative assistant with three other people.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

It involves scam artists - often masquerading as corrupt officials or sons and daughters of dead dictators - offering people via e-mail or faxes shares in hidden fortunes in exchange for simple administrative assistance.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Bank scam trial opens in Nigeria

Despite administrative ceilings imposed in March on lending for property development or purchases of shares, credit keeps climbing.

ECONOMIST: Banking in Malaysia