India: An Investor's Guide to the Next Economic Superpower [Hardcover]

Aaron Chaze (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2, 2006

Take a look at future investment opportunities in an emerging economic power.

Get up to speed on investing in what could well be the greatest opportunity of the 21st century. For those looking for a new place to invest, India describes opportunities and charts a course through them. Offering coverage far deeper than superficial newspaper stories, this comprehensive guide reveals where India stands financially, where it?s going, and how investors everywhere can go with it. No other book looks at India from both an investment standpoint and a Western economic perspective. Order your copy today.

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"Tantalising in a slightly different way…" (Financial World, September 2006)

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India's emergence as an economic powerhouse has captured the world’s attention not seen since the opening of China's economy. A confluence of favorable factors are now unlocking India’s enormous potential: its superb demographics, where it has the youngest population in any major global economy, the quality of its manpower, the birth of new industries and new consumer aspirations and the radical pro-market shift in the thinking of once introverted, socialist-minded politicians and bureaucrats. The fundamental changes that have taken place as well as the structures and policies that are being implemented will further unleash the latent growth potential in a rapidly growing economy.

India: An Investor’s Guide to the Rise of Economic Superpower is about investing in what could well be the greatest opportunity in the 21^st century. It looks at the phenomenal potential that is India from a wealth-creating perspective by analyzing its investment opportunities and charts a course through them. For those people interested in a great new market but who may not know anything beyond what the newspapers say and lack an understanding of a very lucrative proposition, this book aims to take a gigantic leap in terms of a global investor’s understanding of where India stands economically and what its market represents in terms of an opportunity for them.

The book covers key elements that make up the Indian investment canvas:

• insightful perspective on the fundamental changes and what they mean for global investors
• clear understanding of the mega-investment trends unfolding in the economy
• analytical view of the themes, sectors and companies that form the core of the limitless opportunities
• unique historical and contemporary perspective that defines the emerging investment story.

India: An Investor’s Guide to the Rise of Economic Superpower charts a course for investors, business people and analysts on the need to understand this dynamic country and the future it holds.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470821949
• ISBN-13: 978-0470821947
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,681,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, August 15, 2006

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Jim Taylor (Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: India: An Investor's Guide to the Next Economic Superpower (Hardcover)

I have been looking for an opportunity to invest in India and I found the book very helpful. The book helps to seperate fact from fiction and dispel a lot of myths about the Indian market. The author has a thorough understanding of the context within which the Indian market operates which makes the reading both interesting and informative.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Well-Researched Account on India's Growth, June 21, 2010

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Daily Reckoning (Baltimore, MD, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: India: An Investor's Guide to the Next Economic Superpower (Hardcover)

I recently finished reading a book titled India: An Investor's Guide to the Next Economic Superpower by an analyst named Aaron Chaze. It's a well-researched tome on India's economic transformation. While Chaze is bullish, as you might expect, he's downright giddy when it comes to infrastructure. "Thanks to decades of corruption and neglect that retarded infrastructure creation," writes Chaze, "India now has the best potential for investment in infrastructure, not only in Asia, but in the world."

A good slice of that potential is in power generation. As with North America, there's been a widening gap between demand and supply. That gap has just exploded over the past decade. Unlike North America, India is building a lot of brand-new capacity.

Most Indian households - about 60% - still use traditional sources of energy, such as firewood. Increasing prosperity in India, though, is leading to rapid change. Chaze writes, "The explosion in demand once these households start wanting their share of energy is driving feverish additions to capacity."

India is not the whole story. Just a part of what's shaping up to be a monsoon of spending on electrical infrastructure.

Review by a writer for Agora Financial, publisher of economic and financial analysis including Financial Reckoning Day Fallout: Surviving Today's Global Depression, The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble, and I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.

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3.0 out of 5 stars 2.5 stars-An overly enthusiastic evaluation of Inda's economic performance since the reforms of 1991-92, January 9, 2008

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Michael Emmett Brady "mandmbrady" (Bellflower, California ,United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: India: An Investor's Guide to the Next Economic Superpower (Hardcover)

The author presents a case for investment in India which is not substantiated by the latest 2007 World Bank estimates of actual Indian gross national product(gdp) figures.THe World Bank has recalculated India's gdp figure and found that India's gdp is at least 40 % SMALLER than previosly estimated.The figures that the author presents in his first chapter are very inaccurate.Future average Indian gdp growth rates will not come close to the 7%-7.5 % projected.Similarly,it is simply not the case that India's long run average gdp growth rate since the mid 1990's is anywhere close to 6.5 %.The author glosses over the fact that India has not yet successfully created the educational, legal,political, and judicial institutions necessary to reduce intolerable uncertainty to a minimum.Until these necessary institutions are created and the laws are enforced, countries like China,India,and Kenya will not attain the balanced economic growth that can be sustained only by the existence of a large and growing,upwardly mobile middle class.