BRICs update

Ravi Venkatesan, the former chairman of Microsoft India and Cummins, offers some good advice on conducting international business in challenging environments:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-18/why-companies-shouldn-t-write-off-india.html

China’s great rural to urban migration

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html

Brazilian protests

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-18/brazil-s-middle-class-anxiety.html

Russian retail scene

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21579023-retailer-doing-well-business-unfriendly-country-magnit-investors

Emerging Middle Class

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22956470

Update:

Amartya Sen on India and China

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/opinion/why-india-trails-china.html