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Economy & Policy
High on steroids
A Chinese bank becomes the world’s most profitable bank. It’s less performance, more state largesse

Company results seldom inspire literary turns of phrase, and starkly prosaic balance sheets almost never lend themselves to poetic invocations. But last fortnight, when Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the Middle Kingdom’s biggest bank, announced its half-yearly results for 2008, the numbers reflected the same lyrical sentiment about the unbridgeable distance and dissonance between "the East" and "the West" that Rudyard Kipling gave voice to in another time.

For, in a year when banks in the West are drowning in a sea of sub-prime defaults or writing down billions of dollars in losses, ICBC has risen like a Red Star on the eastern horizon to become the world’s most profitable bank. Its net profit in the first half of the year soared 57% to 64.5 billion yuan ($9.4 billion); the bank it displaced at the top spot, HSBC, saw its first-half net profit plunge 29% to $7.7 billion. ...

Marx to market
In the face of competition and changing consumer preferences, Kerala’s Marxists are embracing market economics to keep their co-operative societies above water

Politics of regress
Petty politicians are gunning for business projects, often without counting the costs to the constituency they claim to represent the people

Infrastructure & Realty
Over all the Earth
Punj Lloyd’s early gains in global infrastructure projects might be a role model for a bunch of other infrastructure companies that are emerging in India

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Interviews
'We can make a Nano, but we won’t do it under the Volkswagen brand'
Detlef Wittig, Executive VP, Group Sales and Marketing, Volkswagen

‘Regions are a more relevant economic unit than nations’
Michael Porter, Management Guru

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Companies & Industry
Direct to people
Local referendums on business projects are slowly gaining traction across the world, especially on land use issues pertaining to ‘eminent domain’

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