Clinton urges Indian businesses to invest in U.S.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. is not just a market for foreign companies to sell into but to invest in as well. In a satellite TV address to a conference of Indian business leaders gathered in Santa Clara, California, Clinton said Friday that many global businesses are eager to sell to American consumers, while at the same time American jobs are being exported to lower wage countries. Offshoring eliminates good-paying jobs in the U.S. and threatens the middle class, she said. While the U.S. accounts for only 5 percent of the world's population, it accounts for about 20 percent of the world's gross domestic product, a measure of economic activity. "Countries around the world rely on our marketplace and Americans are literally fueling economic growth throughout the world," Clinton said. "We can promote shared prosperity and a race to the top, not to the bottom." Rather than just sell to Americans, foreign companies should establish business operations in the U.S., which has a highly educated and highly productive workforce and efficient capital markets, Clinton said. "I have serious concerns about creating good jobs right here in the United States." The Democratic candidate's audience was an estimated 4,000 attendees at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 2007 Global Conference, which concluded a three-day run Sunday. IIT, an engineering and science school founded in 1950, operates seven campuses throughout India. The alumni association, PAN IIT, hosted the conference. Of 100,000 IIT alumni, 25 percent of them live and work in the U.S. Clinton was the only one of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates to accept an invitation to speak at the conference, organizers said. The group is trying to take a more proactive role in public policy issues. "I think our political involvement has lagged behind our overall presence and economic involvement in the country. I'm glad our political activity is catching up to what it should be," said Rajat Gupta, former managing director of the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and a conference organizer. The Indian business group won Clinton's support for increasing the number of H1-B visas granted annually in the U.S. to 115,000 from 65,000 now. Some U.S. companies say they need to hire highly skilled engineers from India and other countries because of a shortage of them in the U.S. Unfortunately, that increase was one of many provisions in the immigration reform bill that died in the U.S. Congress June 28. PAN IIT hopes the H1-B increase can be brought back as a separate piece of legislation. Clinton also called for encouraging American students to study math, engineering and science to prepare them for more tech industry jobs in the future. She also called for specific outreach to female and minority students kept under a glass ceiling preventing them from advancing to good paying tech jobs. "I think that's important. In fact, I'm trying to break a very high and very hard ceiling myself," she said.
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In his first major diplomatic engagement Indian PM Manmohan Singh is due to meet US President George Bush in New York.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin began a three-day visit to India on Friday, his first in two years, seeking to provide new momentum to an old friendship by expanding business, energy and traditional military ties, the Reuters news agency reports.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton wooed Silicon Valley campaign donors and voters Thursday with a plan to create more high-paying jobs and maintain U.S. dominance in technology.
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The British prime minister wants India to join the Financial Action Task Force, which targets terrorist financing. He also backed a permanent seat on an expanded UN Security Council.
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The Treasury secretary is urging a successful conclusion of world trade talks, pushing for expansion of Indiaâs capital markets and for regulators to open the financial sector to foreigners.
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A soaring economy and crumbling trade barriers are making India a âmust visitâ destination for foreign politicians and executives.
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Bill Clinton will take his philanthropic summit to Hong Kong next year, hoping that Asians will keep issues such as poverty, health and climate change on the agenda as economies from India to China grow rapidly.
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BANGALORE, India - Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Indian computer software firms to set up offices and joint ventures in his country, promising tax breaks and government support.
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India warned on Friday that new  American arms sales to Pakistan could harm improving New  Delhi-Washington ties as well as a promising dialogue between  the South Asia's two nuclear rivals.
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Tata group chairman Ratan Tata today said he would visit Bangladesh next month to discuss with government representatives the groupâs plan to invest $2 billion to set up steel, power and fertiliser plants in the country.
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The Arab world needs a revolutionary vision, like that of Dubai, to achieve lasting peace, security and prosperity in the Middle East, said former US President Bill Clinton.
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NEW DELHI SEPTEMBER 22 : The United Nationsâ Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) said on Wednesday that India is among the ââdominant host countriesââ for foreign direct investments (FDI) in Asia and the Pacific (APAC), which witnessed
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U.S. Military Contractors Have High Hopes for Sales on the Subcontinent
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SRINAGAR: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday the government would raise $5.3 billion from international lenders for investments in power, roads and telephones in strife-torn Kashmir.
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NEW YORK -- Former President Clinton announced the launch of an investment fund expected to raise more than $1 billion for renewable energy on Friday, the final day of his global issues conference.
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New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, the  Democratic presidential front-runner, on Friday urged closing a  tax &quot;loophole&quot; that she said unfairly benefits a few top Wall  Street financiers.