February 19, 2009 09:47 by
ankit
Indians can help the US tide over the depression like crisis that the world’s largest nation faces. At least this is what the noted writer and New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, believes. He writes in his latest post on the newspaper’s website - "Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate our economy: immigration."
He further quotes Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express - "All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans. We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate - no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans."
A wonderful mantra for survival indeed! But whether it will find favour within the US is highly doubtful given Obama’s rhetoric regarding saving American jobs by putting restrictions on offshoring. Friedman has indeed long believed that the developed world cannot maintain or improve productivity by closing their gates to immigration and offshoring. In viewing the American immigration laws as too restrictive and damaging to economic output, he said a few years ago - "It is pure idiocy that Congress will not open our borders - as wide as possible - to attract and keep the world's first-round intellectual draft choices in an age when everyone increasingly has the same innovation tools and the key differentiator is human talent."
Friedman argues against opponents of free trade that by exporting low-skill and low-wage jobs to foreign countries, more advanced and higher-skilled jobs will be freed up and made available for those displaced by the outsourcing. And so, he writes in his latest article - "Dear America, please remember how you got to be the wealthiest country in history. It wasn’t through protectionism, or state-owned banks or fearing free trade. No, the formula was very simple: build this really flexible, really open economy, tolerate creative destruction so dead capital is quickly redeployed to better ideas and companies, pour into it the most diverse, smart and energetic immigrants from every corner of the world and then stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat."
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Came across a very intersting article for MBA aspirants in the current downturn
The global financial meltdown is a much talked about issue. Indian economy is slowing down too. In such times, is MBA a good option, or not?
This question would be in the minds of lots of MBA aspirants. Mr Sandeep Manudhane, Founder Chairman of Indore based PT Education - an MBA test prep institute, feels that MBA programme is still a good option for the students even if there is a recession in global economy. Mr Manudhane enlightened the 150 CAT qualifiers of Common Admission Test (CAT) '08 on the topic - 'The Global Financial Meltdown', on February 01, 2009 in New Delhi.
When MBAUniverse.com asked the objective behind holding the session on global economy meltdown, Mr Manudhane said, "It is very important topic which should be discussed. The session is organized to show the real picture of global financial crisis, the changes which happened after this recession and how MBAs can face the changing scenario."
Mr Manudhane added, "Students should not let their hopes go down on joining a good MBA programme but yes, they have to change their mindsets that they will not get their returns in high salary packages after doing MBA."
Mr Manudhane feels that MBAs should treat financial meltdown is good opportunity to learn. He said, "Recession is really a very big unwanted thing, as salary packages are cutting down and companies visit at B-schools are decreasing but for MBAs it is the big opportunity of learning too."
While encouraging the students towards the role of MBAs, Mr Manudhane asked them to be the perfect managers and tackle the major problems like recession. "According to today's economic scenario, students should be multi-skilled. You should have knowledge and have to look at all areas like HR, Marketing etc even if you are in Finance area," said Mr Manudhane.
(Source: http://www.mbauniverse.com/innerPage.php?id=ne&pageId=1805)
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