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Latin America’s economic growth has slowed down in 2014. But the region’s fundamentals are relatively strong, and have the resilience to absorb external shocks and increase growth in the coming years. However, Argentina and Venezuela face continuing uncertainty and deterioration.
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U.S. defence secretary Chuck Hagel’s visit is the third in a flurry of visits by top American officials before the scheduled Modi-Obama meet in September. Hagel’s visit will aim to enhance an already well-established defence-trade partnership and allay fears of the Pentagon’s bias towards Pakistan
India has voted alongwith other countries in favour of a UNHRC probe into Israel's offensive on Gaza. This does not signal a significant change in the India-Israel relationship, which is based on an annual bilateral trade of $6 billion. especially in defence equipment. New Delhi is now Tel Aviv's single largest arms buyer. Gateway House brings you a series of special reports and analyses on India and the Gaza conflict. Given our conflicting strategic interests in the West Asia region, there are no easy choices to be made.
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Gateway House's Senior Gandhi Peace Fellow Rajni Bakshi's article on the developments at the WTO written for the Gateway House website was republished in the online news site Firstpost
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If Budget 2014 is used as a reference point to examine how closely the Modi government kept to its election promises, it is evidently not easy to extirpate the old ways of doing business. This is clear, for example, in the punitive capital gains tax rate on debt mutual funds. Budget 2015 must correct the anomalies
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Neelam Deo, Director of Gateway House was quoted in an article on the Chinese online news magazine Ltaa.com on the India-U.S relationship. The article looks at the future course of the bilateral under the charge of PM Modi
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Manjeet Kripalani, Co-founder and Executive Director of Gateway House was quoted in an article in The New York Times on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal. This was the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister to Nepal in 17 years
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An article written by Amit Bhandari, Energy and Environment Fellow at Gateway House was republished in the online newsmagazine The Political Indian. The article examines the possibilities of collaboration between India-Nepal in the field hydropower generation
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The sharp Latin American response to the Israeli bombings in Gaza, on the back of solid support from the U.S., is attributable to the memory of the atrocities committed by past Latin American military dictators with similar U.S. backing. Their strong response is also a sign of the increasingly independent and assertive Latin American voice on the global stage
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Squabbling over Afghan election results still continues but the collapse of the process has been averted for now. More than 700 international election observers are in Kabul ready to conduct the 100% audit of the Afghan runoff election. India has always supported a peaceful transition but the situation in Kabul remains as unpredictable as ever