

{"id":97,"date":"2012-06-24T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2012\/06\/24\/global-economic-scene\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:06:27","slug":"global-economic-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2012\/06\/24\/global-economic-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Economic Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-61MKXfVpwXA\/T-d0DthqWbI\/AAAAAAAABCM\/eE6vwxPgfi8\/s1600\/18-06-2012-02-06-00-903mdf88868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-61MKXfVpwXA\/T-d0DthqWbI\/AAAAAAAABCM\/eE6vwxPgfi8\/s320\/18-06-2012-02-06-00-903mdf88868.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"203\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">Oxfam activists wear masks representing G20 leaders (L-R) South African President Jacob Zuma, French President Francois Hollande, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and U.S. President Barack Obama sitting at a dinner table along a shore in Los Cabos June 17, 2012.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">Image by:<\/b><span style=\"background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">\u00a0ANDRES STAPFF \/ REUTERS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Can someone explain please ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b><u>Euro-zone<\/u><\/b><\/span><u><b>\u00a0Crisis<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p>India pledges $ 10 Bn<br \/>\nChina pledges \u00a0$ 43 Bn<br \/>\nUS pledges \u00a0 \u00a0$ 0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To put it in some perspective, $ 10 bn = Rs 56,700 Crores which is roughly the amount earmarked \u00a0by former Fin Min P Chidambaram in his \u00a0budget of 2008, for loan waiver for farmers.There was a huge debate on the issue of bailing out our own farmers, whereas there was none whatsoever on bail out of Euro zone.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><b><u>Dollar appreciation<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-N5SQS_Ypcz8\/T-dy8hsES4I\/AAAAAAAABCE\/kVoOT91pVqc\/s1600\/Great-Wallet-of-China.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-N5SQS_Ypcz8\/T-dy8hsES4I\/AAAAAAAABCE\/kVoOT91pVqc\/s320\/Great-Wallet-of-China.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"242\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>US national Debt (Ranked no 1 in absolute terms) is over $ 15 Tn, ie $ 15,810,178,118,108 and counting &#8230;.<br \/>\nIt is 103 % of GDP. \u00a0refer to http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s debt 5% of GDP<br \/>\nIndia&#8217;s \u00a0debt 22% of GDP<br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\">data from \u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background-color: white;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_external_debt\">wikipedia<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: whitesmoke; color: #7d7d7d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px;\">Copyright for cartoon \u00a9 2009 Creators Syndicate<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet dollar is appreciating against rupee and yuan.<br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\">Why is India and China competing to provide subsidies to America and Europe ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usgovernmentspending.com\/usgs_line.php?title=Defense&amp;units=b&amp;size=m&amp;year=2002_2017&amp;sname=US&amp;bar=1&amp;stack=1&amp;col=c&amp;legend=&amp;source=a_i_a_a_a_a_a_a_e_g_g_g_g_g_g_g&amp;spending0=422.06_483.94_543.95_601.18_622.13_653.60_730.66_794.94_847.96_879.40_903.27_902.74_801.23_779.22_796.09_809.84\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.usgovernmentspending.com\/usgs_line.php?title=Defense&amp;units=b&amp;size=m&amp;year=2002_2017&amp;sname=US&amp;bar=1&amp;stack=1&amp;col=c&amp;legend=&amp;source=a_i_a_a_a_a_a_a_e_g_g_g_g_g_g_g&amp;spending0=422.06_483.94_543.95_601.18_622.13_653.60_730.66_794.94_847.96_879.40_903.27_902.74_801.23_779.22_796.09_809.84\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And what does US do with its dollars ie\u00a0borrowed\u00a0dollars? Fight wars all over the globe, Provide social security and health cover to its citizens and provide heavy subsidies to its farmers to beat down the price of agricultural products from the third world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-IR4ElXPYkEE\/T-dttsyWl5I\/AAAAAAAABB4\/UPQRsnPwZ6g\/s1600\/A-man-works-in-a-cotton-f-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-IR4ElXPYkEE\/T-dttsyWl5I\/AAAAAAAABB4\/UPQRsnPwZ6g\/s320\/A-man-works-in-a-cotton-f-007.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\">A man working in a cotton factory in Mumbai, India. US subsidies of $24bn to its cotton farmers have driven down world prices and damaged livelihoods of developing world cotton producers. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui\/Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: left;\">for more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/global-development\/poverty-matters\/2011\/may\/24\/american-cotton-subsidies-illegal-obama-must-act\">click<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Oxfam activists wear masks representing G20 leaders (L-R) South African President Jacob Zuma, French President Francois Hollande, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and U.S. President Barack Obama sitting at a dinner table along a shore in Los Cabos June 17, 2012.\u00a0 Image by:\u00a0ANDRES STAPFF \/ REUTERS Can someone explain please ? Euro-zone\u00a0Crisis India &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2012\/06\/24\/global-economic-scene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Global Economic Scene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}