Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 | MAURITIUSINDIABRIEFING Tax treats stay in downturn 2nd October 2012 Opaque flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Mauritius to India look set to continue – despite the eight rounds of negotiations over the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | MAURITIUSINDIA To save a treaty 31st July 2012 Pressure mounts again on the treaty that allows funds to transit untaxed through Mauritius and into India’s markets Mauritius and India are gearing up for another confrontation over the 1983 Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. The DTAA allows Indian investors to avoid paying tax by funnelling their...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | ZIMBABWEINDIA Missing the sparklers 31st July 2012 Disappearing diamond revenue is slowing economic growth and enriching illicit networks at the interstices of India-Zimbabwe trade Disappointing diamond revenues and other factors forced Finance Minister Tendai Biti to slash predictions for Zimbabwe’s gross domestic product growth in 2012 from the expected 9.4% to just...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | ZIMBABWEINDIA No retail therapy here 31st July 2012 Since he was widowed in March 2009, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been involved in a series of romantic escapades that have drawn...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | INDIAAFRICABRIEFING New Delhi’s Development partnerships 31st July 2012 Indian policy-makers are getting more serious about the effective delivery of aid to their diplomatic allies. New Delhi lags far behind its Asian counterparts in speed of despatch,...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 | INDIA Vikramjit Singh Sahney 31st July 2012 President, Sun Group After years spent cultivating India’s relations with Southern Africa, V.S. Sahney has turned his attention to the West. In July, Sahney led a Federation of...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 8 | ANGOLAINDIABRIEFING Asian workers strike in Kwanza Sul 1st June 2012 A wage dispute at an Angolan building site in Chindonga, a sleepy town in Kwanza Sul, is causing a storm in India.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 8 | INDIA Pratibha Devisingh Patil 1st June 2012 President, India The five-year term of Pratibha Patil, India’s first female President, ends on 25 July. Her final foreign tour on 27 April–7 May took in South Africa and the...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 7 | ZIMBABWEINDIA Steel while the iron is hot 4th May 2012 Essar’s investment in the former ZISCO operations have slowed again as negotiations over access to mining rights delay development Essar’s deal for rehabilitating NewZim Steel (formerly the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company) is teetering on the brink of collapse.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 7 | INDIAAFRICABRIEFING Coal is hot 4th May 2012 Southern Africa is now the major frontier of coal exploration for Indian energy companies. Khopoli Investments, a subsidiary of India’s largest private power producer, Tata Power, agreed a...