India must leverage PPE experience to attract business leaving China

    2020-08-20T05:49:00+00:00June 12th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business|

    India’s success in creating the world’s second-largest PPE industry from scratch in a span of just three months offers a template for global brands setting up shop in India to gain a competitive edge and security of production. This template and these advantages should be leveraged to attract companies looking for alternatives to China, writes India Inc Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa.

      “Thank God” for Modi’s economic and social reforms

      2020-06-12T14:01:04+00:00June 6th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business, Home Page|

      In response to former Goldman Sachs Chief Economist and inventor of the term ‘BRICS’ Lord Jim O’Neill’s comment “Thank God this [COVID19] didn’t start somewhere like India…” Founder and CEO of India Inc. Group Manoj Ladwa argues that its precisely because of India’s economic and social reforms in the past six years that the country seems to be dealing with the crisis much better than pundits expected.

        US must rediscover its foundational values, Indian Americans have a role to play

        2020-12-12T09:37:10+00:00June 5th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business|

        The US has to quickly resolve its ethnic divides and rediscover its foundational values. Otherwise, it will be difficult to stem the advance of forces that are antipathy to liberal democracies world over, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa.

          The world has to stand up to the blatant Chinese power grab in Hong Kong

          2020-08-20T06:53:24+00:00May 29th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business|

          China is trying to utilise Western pre-occupation with the coronavirus to brazenly expand the boundaries of what it considers a Sino-sphere. Unless the free world pushes back against this now, it will be difficult to contain China’s ambitions of dominating the world in the future, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa.

            Should Modi hire “assorted weirdos” to reform India’s civil service?

            2020-08-20T06:51:03+00:00May 27th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business, Home Page|

            In a potent challenge to the Whitehall system, Boris Johnson’s controversial political advisor, Dominic Cummings wrote in a now infamous blog at the beginning of the year, that he wanted to hire “data scientists, policy experts, assorted weirdos” to work in 10 Downing Street. He was laying down the gauntlet to radically shake up Britain’s fabled civil service that once ruled two thirds of the globe. Manoj Ladwa, India Inc. Group Founder and CEO, asks whether it’s time for the [...]

              The need to speed up power, logistics reform

              2020-08-20T06:53:32+00:00May 15th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business|

              Foreign investors consider energy and logistics costs in countries very carefully while deciding on investment destinations. To attract Western, Japanese and Korean companies leaving China in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, India Inc. Group Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa argues in this fourth of a six part series of articles, that India must privatise its power distribution and urgently reform its logistics networks. Highlights: India’s power sector needs thorough structural reforms. India must privatise its power distribution and bring [...]

                Legal reforms are crucial to attracting investment

                2020-08-20T06:53:37+00:00May 14th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business|

                Will the Modi government stand up to the luddites in the legal profession, who for decades, have stifled reform at every opportunity? India Inc. Group Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa outlines his thoughts for a radically reformed Indian economy in this last of a six part series of articles. Highlights: India will need deep rooted legal reforms in order to gain a coveted place in the top 50 in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings. India’s legal system is [...]

                  Reform capital markets to lower cost of money

                  2022-02-08T17:15:54+00:00May 14th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business|

                  It’s time to bring back development finance institutions, and reform the bond market so Indian businesses can raise money at competitive rates, writes India Inc Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa. Highlights: India needs alternative sources of finance for its long-term infrastructure development and other needs. The government must encourage large corporates to float new development financial institutions to channel household savings and foreign borrowings into productive assets. RBI should subscribe to bonds issued by companies or set up a dedicated [...]

                    Unshackling labour from outdated regulations

                    2020-08-20T06:53:46+00:00May 13th, 2020|Globally Speaking - India Global Business|

                    The central government must not now waver on its intended labour reforms, that it started last year before the COVID-19 crisis, says India Inc. Group Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa in the second of this 6-part series of articles on his vision for reforming India’s economy. Highlights: Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Punjab announced significant labour reforms last week. Labour laws in these states are now comparable to those in India’s peer nations in South East Asia. At the federal level, the government has been working at reforming India’s [...]