Flaws in the Asian agricultural sector risk reducing productivity and fuelling inflation.
Indian infrastructure companies are embarking on a fund-raising spree that will give investors access to what is expected to become one of the biggest sectors on the country's stock market over the next few years.
International investors are preparing to make an unprecedented onslaught on Bollywood this year, with several Hollywood studios and a group of London-listed funds looking to take a share of the world's most prolific movie-making market.
Multinationals continue to view the country as one of the most viable outsourcing destinations, but competitive pressures are making other countries look attractive.
Despite coming to market last year amid a barrage of publicity, many of the Aim funds are still trading at a discount to their net asset values and some are still trading below their initial public offering prices even as their peers that listed in India are enjoying the good times.
What in a few years will be India's largest shopping mall today is a kilometre-long, three-storey deep hole in the earth marked with a billboard the size of a tennis court.
If 2006 was the year when companies in China and India hinted at their potential to redraw the global landscape for mergers and acquisitions, this has been the year when they started to deliver on their promise.
England's soccer league teams are following the lead of multinationals and beginning to look to emerging markets for growth, with Premier League leader Arsenal FC on Tuesday announcing an initiative aimed at giving it a foothold in India.
Japan's main market for emerging technology companies is in talks with the Bombay Stock Exchange for an alliance that could lead to Indian companies listing on its board in Tokyo.
The differences between China and India, in terms of operating as a foreign investment bank, are highlighted by the contrasting personnel hired to lead the operations.
On the Dealogic measures, China and India now account for nearly half of all investment banking fees earned in Asia, outside Japan.
The Mumbai traffic police, in a move that runs against the very culture of driving in this city of 18m, have begun cracking down on noisy motorists.
Reliance Capital Asset Management, controlled by Anil Ambani, has sold a 5 per cent stake to Eton Park Capital Management in a deal that for the first time puts a value on India's largest mutual fund.
India's mutual fund industry is one of the brightest spots in an already fast-growing domestic financial sector.
Romesh Sobti, ABN country head for India, will move to IndusInd Bank, a domestic private-sector institution controlled by the Hinduja family.
People close to Indian carmakers Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra, and the buy-out group One Equity Partners, said on Tuesday that they expected Ford to respond imminently to their revised offers made last week.
"We are looking at how we can bring back skill sets developed by Indians overseas," Rajiv Singh, vice-chairman of DLF, said in an interview with the Financial Times. "Our desire is to have a very highly motivated and trained labour force come back and work for us."
For a direct indication of the premium attached to efficiently-run ports in India, one need look no further than the recent stock market listing of Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone.
Many view private equity-related funds as a better way of capturing the upside in the economy, given that stock market valuations have been swollen by three to four years of almost uninterrupted share price rises.
Goldman Sachs has amassed $2bn to use for property investments in Asia, a move likely to intensify competition for assets in fast-growing markets such as China and India.
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