Regardless of 'results' one can say whether a test is useless or not? Indians authorities reviewed test and felt useless. India has much much tougher tests :lol:
PISA is 'conducted' by OECD and sample is selected by China.
India didn't chickened out, India felt the test was useless hence withdrew.
Now China has a history of tampering with statistics. Everybody take statistics coming out China with a bag of salt.
There is migration from eastern EU, but here in this case the forecast was based on UK being a talent magnet. I guess apart from US, the next best destination is UK for high talent. Also English gives UK a natural advantage over Germany in attracting top talent across the world.
As regarding...
UK has robust telecoms and defence Industry. The demographics calculation are based on immigration fuelled by UK's world class education institutions. And PISA is useless exams and tell nothing. Anybody can tamper PISA score just as China does.
UK will remain significant because
1) Investor always look at investing in portfolio of assets and UK provides a degree of diversification because of its exposure to EU markets
2) I know first hand that major European Companies (Even German companies ) raise funds from UK markets rather than...
HDFC and ICICI may be doing extremely well. But the quantum of financing activity that happens in India is not anywhere near what is happening in US or UK. There are several reason for that and one of them is investor would always consider the following before investing 1) Liquidity of financial...
You are right, banking and financial services are not limited to UK or US any more. However, because of blurring of capital markets, proximity of finance to Industrial centres is important but not a necessity any more. It is as easy and sometime easier for an Indian company to raise money in US...
Inflation cannot be zero. Inflation is required for economic growth. At present UK inflation is 2.2% and not 3%. Germany is a industrial base, so is UK a financial hub. Do you know that $1 trillion dollars are raised and invested every year for The City alone, a one square KM space in midst of...
Centre for Economics and Business Research is pretty solid organization and is very influential among law makers, financial firms and MNCs.
As regarding UK printing money, the first indicator is CPI or Inflation. UK Inflation is just 2%A low inflation indicates low supply of sterling, hence...
Advocating a break Euro, this report is going to create a storm in Europe.
It is because of the younger demographics of UK that it may overtake Germany, and neither is UK economy failed as many may led you to believe
World Economic League Table 2013 shows China overtaking US in 2028; UK to overtake Germany ‘around 2030’
China’s GDP in $ to overtake the US only in 2028 – much later than most previous predictions
India’s GDP overtakes Japan also in 2028
UK does second best of advanced economies and...
No wonder the Spirit n Desire for FREEDOM in Balachustan couldnt be crushed by Pakistan.... by killing,raping,torture etc... you might be able to scare an individual but not a nation or people... Only strengthening their resolved..