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    Gujarat: India’s laboratory of development

    2019-01-02T08:23:05+00:00January 11th, 2017|2018/2017, From The Top, India Investment Journal January Edition, Year|

    Gujarat is a laboratory of a development model that is uniquely home-grown. A lot has been written and even more spoken of the Gujarat Model of Development that has been praised the world over, including by the United Nations. But in India, the media narrative, disseminated mainly by people who view Prime Minister Narendra Modi – who authored this model as chief minister of Gujarat – solely through the prism of their opposition to everything he does, has been mixed. [...]

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      Packing in a long-term India strategy

      2018-12-05T13:09:23+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship schemes, India Investment Journal January 2017, REWIND 2017, Year|

      As Swedish retail giant IKEA gets set to open up its first India store in Hyderabad this year, ‘India Investment Journal’ catches up with IKEA India’s Deputy Country Manager Patrik Antoni to see how the New Year is likely to pan out for the company. How do you view 2017 for the company in India? Very exciting times as we are working towards opening our first India store in Hyderabad by end 2017. Many people in India will soon have [...]

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        Can demonetisation deliver votes?

        2019-01-02T12:30:40+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, Final Word, India Investment Journal January 2017, Year|

        Good economics has given rich political returns over the last decade. Will the trend hold in 2017? In India, conventional wisdom had it, for decades, that good economics makes for bad politics. Some politicians still think caste, religion and populism are more important factors than economic growth. It is probably this line of thinking that has prompted politicians of all hues – from Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to Uttar Pradesh chief ministerial aspirant [...]

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          A natural tech partnership for the New Year

          2018-12-06T14:01:26+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship schemes, India Investment Journal January 2017, Year|

          A new report tracks the opportunities for future technology collaborations between India and the UK to strengthen links in the areas of Smart Cities, Digital Healthcare and Advanced Manufacturing. Today 30 per cent of India’s population resides in urban centres, with these centres contributing around 65 per cent of India’s GDP. It is projected that urban India will contribute about 75 per cent of the national GDP in the next 15-20 years, while the number of people residing in urban [...]

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            The promise called India

            2019-01-02T10:33:01+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Policy India, REWIND 2017, Year|

            India crossed the $300 billion mark at a time when the global economic slowdown has had a dampening impact. This speaks volumes of the opportunity India as an investment destination has to offer and how timely market reforms are creating a positive ecosystem for the international investor. The government of India has taken up a series of measures to improve Ease of Doing Business in the country. The emphasis has been on simplification and rationalisation of the existing rules and [...]

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              UK must rethink abolition of tax relief for overseas work

              2019-01-02T08:36:00+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Other Highlights, Year|

              Changes to how overseas work, including in India, will be taxed is among wider UK government plans to alter how termination pay outs, such as redundancy payments, will be dealt with by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). It would be a mistake for the UK Government to go ahead and abolish, in April 2018, Foreign Service Relief (FSR) on termination payments made to UK taxpayers. FSR is a longstanding relief which wholly or partly exempts non-contractual termination of employment [...]

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                On road to a corruption-free India

                2019-01-02T08:22:33+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Policy India, Year|

                Employment intensive sectors such as agriculture, housing, tourism, textiles and retail must flourish and grow, writes a policy expert. Narendra Modi donned an unexpectedly huge challenge on himself and every citizen of India to completely disrupt and totally metamorphose our economy and society. With no Indian untouched by this move and by massively utilising social media platforms, television and radio, the Prime Minister is determined to be connected directly to each one of us in a most unprecedented manner. In [...]

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                  Business travel to India: Some practical tips for your visa journey

                  2019-01-02T10:33:40+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Other Highlights, Year|

                  An Indian visa strategist demystifies some of the jargon that is often associated with very simple travel procedures for the country and analyses how the e-visa is changing the landscape for business travel to India. When one hears the words Indian visas, one usually has images of nightmare queues and waking up at ridiculous hours of the morning to trek to the Indian mission. Well, with the advent of an online visa (the so called e-Tourist Visa (e-TV for short)), [...]

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                    Reforms will reflect in Ease of Doing Business ranking in 2017

                    2019-01-02T08:19:39+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Policy India, Year|

                    Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary, Department of Investment Policy and Promotion (DIPP), took time out of his punishing schedule to meet ‘India Investment Journal’ to speak about, among other things, how his department is easing rules and re-engineering government processes to make India an easier place to do business in. India’s rank has improved just one place to 130th in this year’s World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index. Why? Reforms on ease of doing business are underway on 10 parameters. Unfortunately, [...]

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                      Treasures from the Bodleian Libraries’ Indian Collection

                      2019-01-02T10:41:14+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Other Highlights, Year|

                      The Bodleian Libraries, the world famous research hub of Oxford University, houses the world’s largest known collection of Sanskrit manuscripts outside the Indian subcontinent, consisting of approximately 8,700 items. A leading Indologist charged with this wealth of information writes exclusively for ‘India Investment Journal’ on the treasures that will mark the UK-India Year of Culture 2017 celebrations. The first Sanskrit manuscript acquired by the Bodleian was an astrological work, the Jyotiṣaratnamālā ‘Garland of Jewels on Astrology’ by Śrīpati. It was [...]

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