U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Reliance's Jamnagar Refinery in Gujarat

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India may not match the United States or China in total refining capacity, but its sophisticated refining infrastructure, crude-processing flexibility, and export capability give it an important place in the global energy system. 

South Asia’s Development Finance Dilemma: Debt, FDI and the Search for Productive Capital

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Growth of Underground Economy and Rising Income Disparity is a Social Concern in Sri Lanka

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From Infrastructure to Investment: Building West Bengal’s Next Growth Cycle

The larger opportunity before West Bengal is therefore not another round of infrastructure creation in isolation. It is the creation of an ecosystem in which infrastructure, private capital, local enterprise and skilled labour reinforce one another. 

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