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Walmart’s traditional victims become its allies in India

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Mumbai: Walmart Inc. is making friends in India with the kind of competitors that it spent decades putting out of business in the US—mom and pop stores. These unlikely allies are part of the latest attempt by the Bentonville, Arkansas-based behemoth to crack India’s giant consumer market, taking on e-commerce rival Amazon.com Inc. and Asia’s richest … Read more

Forty million victims of modern slavery in 2016: report

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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by modern slavery, 71 percent of the overall total, a study says. Global child labour remained concentrated primarily in agriculture in 2016, the report said [File: AP] Forty million people around the world, mostly women and girls, were victims of modern slavery last year, according to a new report. … Read more