http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/07/19/innovate-for-indias-poor Comments for "Microsoft India Chairman's Take on BOP" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/07/19/innovate-for-indias-poor <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> July 17, 2007 - 14:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> Wall Street Journal</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> Innovate for India&#039;s Poor</div><br> <div class="form-item"> <label>Story Link:</label> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118470514352969321.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118470514352969321.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</a> </div> <div class="flexinode--41"> <strong>Teaser: </strong><br /> When the Korean steelmaker Posco decided to invest $11 billion in the bleak hinterland of eastern India, it might have expected to be greeted with flowers. Instead, two Posco executives were recently kidnapped, but later released unharmed, in a protest over government policies to transfer land from struggling farmers to the mega-corporations driving India&#39;s modernization.<br /><br />It is only the latest evidence of gathering rage among the hundreds of millions who remain mute spectators to the Indian economic miracle. In recent months, peasant revolts have been flaring up across the country, protesting against industrialization and the land grabs that accompany it. Harnessing the anger of rural poor, Maoist-inspired insurgents roam freely across much of central India, causing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to call them the largest threat to India&#39;s security.<br class="clear" /></div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> When the Korean steelmaker Posco decided to invest $11 billion in the bleak hinterland of eastern India, it might have expected to be greeted with flowers. Instead, two Posco executives were recently kidnapped, but later released unharmed, in a protest over government policies to transfer land from struggling farmers to the mega-corporations driving India&#39;s modernization.<br /><br />It is only the latest evidence of gathering rage among the hundreds of millions who remain mute spectators to the Indian economic miracle. In recent months, peasant revolts have been flaring up across the country, protesting against industrialization and the land grabs that accompany it. Harnessing the anger of rural poor, Maoist-inspired insurgents roam freely across much of central India, causing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to call them the largest threat to India&#39;s security.<br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/07/19/innovate-for-indias-poor#comment Strategy Asia Pacific Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:13:43 -0400 Julia Tran 4199 at http://www.nextbillion.net