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    Will GST keep its date with April 1 this year?

    2018-12-05T13:39:10+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Top 5 Things to Watch in 2017, Year|

    Does the government have sufficient time to roll out the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is, arguably, the biggest tax reform ever attempted in India? “I am trying my best,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said when asked about the April 2017 deadline for GST. But experts and analysts feel it will be difficult for the government to meet this rollout schedule as the GST Council, the apex dispute resolution body for the tax, has not yet resolved several [...]

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      Gujarat converts roadblocks into opportunities

      2019-01-02T10:41:50+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, State Focus: Gujarat, Year|

      Against the backdrop of the 2017 Vibrant Gujarat summit, Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani takes time out for ‘India Investment Journal’ to trace the state’s journey to be recognised as one of the country’s most investor-friendly destinations. What is Gujarat doing to maintain its lead in the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) rankings? Gujarat has always been the frontrunner of creating investor friendly ecosystem. It is enthralling to see that there is a stiff competition among the states and they [...]

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        Good show in crucial state polls will give a fillip to reforms

        2018-12-05T13:38:35+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Top 5 Things to Watch in 2017, Year|

        Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly this year lead the charge of five state polls which will not only reflect the nation’s mood but also determine the pace of reforms in the country. Five states will elect new governments in the first half of this year. Of these, elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly are considered the most important and Punjab slightly less so. The other three states – Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur – are small and politically less [...]

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          Job creation may gather pace from second half of 2017

          2018-12-06T13:09:24+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Top 5 Things to Watch in 2017, Year|

          The immediate impact of demonetisation will mean a slower pace of job creation but, overall, there is some good news in store for the New Year. How long will the current phase of jobless growth in India, which began during the UPA II regime continue? And when will the Narendra Modi government’s flagship schemes such as Make in India, Start-up India, etc., start generating jobs – which, for many Indians, remains the true touchstone of the achcche din (good times) [...]

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            Why the World Comes to Gujarat

            2020-03-12T14:17:21+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, State Focus: Gujarat, Year|

            Gujarat, with its investor-friendly policies and outward looking approach, has succeeded in attracting some of the world's biggest corporates to its shores. 'India Investment Journal' profiles a few of the key MNCs happy with Gujarat as their base. Honda Industry: Automotive Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan Year of establishment in Gujarat: February 2016 Description: Honda inaugurated one of the world’s largest scooter exclusive plants at Vithalapur in Gujarat with an annual capacity of 1.2 million units. The new plant will employ [...]

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              A New Chapter in Gujarat’s Vibrant Growth

              2019-01-02T10:44:29+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, State Focus: Gujarat, Year|

              A leading Indian industrialist traces the Gujarat development story and lays out the many opportunities in specific sectors for foreign investors. As we enter the year 2017 and review the global economic outlook, we see a horizon that is quite challenging. Global economic growth is still weak. Strategic and economic relations among major countries are undergoing a change. Global trade architecture is in for a makeover, with priorities being redefined by countries. As businesses prepare to deal with these bouts [...]

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              Editor’s Note

              2020-03-12T08:41:02+00:00January 8th, 2017|2018/2017, Editor's Note, India Investment Journal January 2017, India Investment Journal January Edition, Year|

              As we welcome the start of a New Year, ‘India Investment Journal’ takes a look-back at developments in 2016 that will continue to unravel and define 2017. The last year was characterised by many upheavals and will go down in history as a year of turbulence and disruptions. In our central feature, we pick out five such developments that emerged as central to these disruptions and analyse why they will be the ones to watch out for in the New [...]

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                India’s daring demonetisation move

                2018-12-05T13:34:34+00:00January 6th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Top 5 Things to Watch in 2017, Year|

                The impact of the Indian government’s move to decommission some high value notes from circulation will fully pan out in the New Year. The 50-day window sought by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for completing the demonetisation of high value Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes is now over but the jury is still out on the impact of the move that is, arguably, the most daring, and far reaching, economic reform ever undertaken by any Indian government. Though it is [...]

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                  Is an interest rate cut on the horizon?

                  2018-12-05T13:41:20+00:00January 6th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Top 5 Things to Watch in 2017, Year|

                  The questions on everybody’s lips are: When will the RBI cut rates? And when will banks pass on RBI’s previous rate cuts to customers? The logic behind those questions is evident. The short-term economic forecasts are not very encouraging. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) expects the country’s GDP to grow at 7.1 per cent in 2016-17, a sharp half percentage point lower than its previous growth estimate of 7.6 per cent. This contraction in growth estimates is mainly because [...]

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