Switzerland imported more gold than India last year, though much of it was re-exported.
World Bank research suggests that they are 25% more expensive than India's, but 50% more productive.
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Thus, they always had better abilities to feed their population and run manufacturing better than India.
Not long ago few countries were more paranoid about foreign investment, free trade and multinationals than India.
On Nomura's measure, that is more than India and bigger than elsewhere in the region (see chart).
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That sounds impossibly cheap in the West but remains three times higher than India's annual per capita income.
According to a recent McKinsey report, Africa already has more middle-class consumers than India, which has a larger population.
By then he'd realized that making a product for the masses, rather than India's elite, would be a smart move.
But some African countries have seen farm output per head actually fall and they have still cut malnutrition more than India.
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Morton predicts that the hubs for technological growth will be in places like China and South Korea--rather than India and Brazil.
America's recorded imports of software services from India are also much smaller than India's reported exports of such services to America.
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Nepal's literary scene is smaller and less heralded than India's and Pakistan's.
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Brazil cut poverty by more than India despite much lower growth, just over 1% a year in 1993-2005, compared with India's 5%.
Brazil, with its abundant land and water, higher yields and lower costs than India, was a logical choice, according to strategy head Watve.
It has long been assumed the process of reversing sex selection does not happen until countries are richer than India or China are now.
Under Brazilian law, eighty percent of the land in the Amazon, which covers an area larger than India, must be set aside as legal reserve.
Thus, China got to nuclear status twelve years earlier than India.
UBS, argues that China is one of the most rapidly liberalising economies in the world, and is opening markets far more than India or Brazil.
Under four-and-a-half years of Ms Mayawati's rule, the state has recorded an average of over 7% growth a year, a tad less than India's average of 8.15%.
We recently completed an analysis where our value added outsourcing ITO services were the same price up to 17% higher than India depending on the specific service.
Modi had claimed Banerjee earned more money from the BCCI, which he represented as a lawyer, than India captain Rahul Dravid because of his proximity to Dalmiya.
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When pharmaceutical firms have looked further afield, it has been to countries such as Brazil and Turkey, which offer more-sophisticated health-care facilities and higher incomes than India.
Tha batting star of the day, though, was Lara, who reached the 9, 000-run milestone in 177 innings, two appearances less than India's Sachin Tendulkar, who passed the mark on Friday.
England's strike-rate of 112.7 is better only than India and West Indies and while the latter are simply poor at powerplays India can point to being the best at conserving wickets.
Softtek positions itself as the "near-shore" answer to India's offshore information-technology service providers, more convenient than India because Mexico is within U.S. time zones and is a much shorter flight than to India.
No country in the world is more attuned to these changes than India and I got talking with crowdsourced labor specialist Subroto Gupta, a Vice President, Corporate Initiatives, at Genpact, earlier in the week to think about the future of outsourced work.
Nehru agreed, and so did the outgoing British Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. (A pragmatist, Mountbatten noted that Kashmir was more closely linked, through religion and geography, to Pakistan than India.) As a result, the maharajah was asked to sign only a treaty of temporary accession to India.
By 1870 the average income in Britain was six times larger than in India or China.
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