charlie: amy chaw and gita wirjawan when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with the farmers that grow our sweet potatoes and merchants that sell our product. we ve gone from being in 5 stores to 7,500. booming is using points to make connections that grow your business. additional funding provided by these funders: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. charlie: amy chua is here. she s a professor at yale law school and author of a critically acclaimed books on global instability. her latest book is battle hymn of the tiger mother how she raised her two daughters using what she called strict chinese methods. since it s released the book has ignited fierce debate. an except because published in the wall street journal. readers called her everything from a monster to a savvy provocateur. welcome. thank
percent are takenout. hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. with 1.2 billion people india represents a huge opportunity for retail firms, but the market has long remained closed to big international brands, but now that could be starting to change. reporter: the north indian city of chandigarh is now home to a very american brand. foreign multi-brand retailers can t sell directly to consumers in india, but they can run wholesale operations and provide back-end support to indian retailers, as wal-mart does in a joint venture with bharti enterprises. it plans to multiply its network from two wholesale stores to 15 by the end of next year. jain: with a billion people and an economy growing at over 8 percent, where is there a market like india which is still to be tapped? especially when it comes to an industry like retailing or a service style retailing, which is completely at i
percent are takenout. hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. with 1.2 billion people india represents a huge opportunity for retail firms, but the market has long remained closed to big international brands, but now that could be starting to change. reporter: the north indian city of chandigarh is now home to a very american brand. foreign multi-brand retailers can t sell directly to consumers in india, but they can run wholesale operations and provide back-end support to indian retailers, as wal-mart does in a joint venture with bharti enterprises. it plans to multiply its network from two wholesale stores to 15 by the end of next year. jain: with a billion people and an economy growing at over 8 percent, where is there a market like india which is still to be tapped? especially when it comes to an industry like retailing or a service style retailing, which is completely at i
micron and of this 99.8 percent are takenout. hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. with 1.2 billion people india represents a huge opportunity for retail firms, but the market has long remained closed to big international brands, but now that could be starting to change. reporter: the north indian city of chandigarh is now home to a very american brand. foreign multi-brand retailers can t sell directly to consumers in india, but they can run wholesale operations and provide back-end support to indian retailers, as wal-mart does in a joint venture with bharti enterprises. it plans to multiply its network from two wholesale stores to 15 by the end of next year. jain: with a billion people and an economy growing at over 8 percent, where is there a market like india which is still to be tapped? especially when it comes to an industry like retailing or a service style retailing,
hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. over the last decade syria has undergone a series of fundamental internal changes. once a soviet style command economy it is now attempting to embrace features of a western style, social market. as part of our occasional series looking at frontier markets we went to damascus to find out how far it has come. reporter: damascus. the world s oldest, continuously, inhabited city. and, for most of the last fifty years, a city living under the discipline of a state controlled economy. kahale: opportunity was limited, the law was very complicated for investors. and that s why people who wereca - it was like bringing a ferrari and let it run away in a desert. reporter: a move to a more free market was first considered in the nineteen eighties but the discovery of oil meant the government could continue business as usual. that oil though is now r