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    US-China trade war and protectionism in the West, not India, dragging down global growth

    2020-03-24T07:42:42+00:00January 23rd, 2020|Home Page, India Inc News|

    Many economists feel that some green shoots of growth are visible within the Indian economy but it is best to wait for more widely dispersed signs of a turnaround before breathing a little easier. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected India to grow at 4.8 per cent this year, down sharply from the 6.1 per cent forecast in October 2019, and blamed it for dragging global growth down. Since India is the world’s fifth-largest economy in purchasing power parity [...]

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      The vexing issue of the Indian Sovereign Bonds

      2019-08-19T06:48:27+00:00August 9th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – August 2019|

      The Finance Minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman, in her maiden budget speech announced that India would issue its first international Sovereign Bond. Above the din of sound bytes and criticism that has followed, two investment experts decipher what this really means for the Indian economy. Will they, or Won’t they? Should We, or Shouldn’t we? Global investors have been asking themselves the first question and various agencies of Government of India have been asking the second. The Finance Minister of [...]

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        Do Modi’s numbers stack up?

        2020-03-24T07:35:28+00:00March 29th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – March 2019|

        As India’s General Elections get underway, a closer look at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s report card on the economy and the social sector shows he does have a good story to sell to his electorate. The war drums are reaching a deafening crescendo heralding the start of the greatest show on earth – when 900 million Indians get together to elect the government that will define the destiny of one-sixth of the world’s population. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led 30-party [...]

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          Circular Economy: An alternative development pathway for India

          2020-03-24T07:47:53+00:00February 15th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – February 2019, Home Page|

          An entrepreneur delves into the tremendous untapped potential of circularising the Indian economy to accelerate growth and job creation. In 2010, India consumed close to one-twelfth of the total raw materials extracted globally. Being one of the fastest growing economies globally, with a growing population anchored around an aspirational middle class and unprecedented levels of urbanisation, India will nearly triple its demand for primary raw materials to 15 billion tonnes by 2030 if it follows the current linear economy model [...]

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            Financial Reforms in India – A New Era

            2018-05-28T12:12:20+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, October 2017, SECTOR FOCUS/Finance, Year|

            A financial expert delves into how reforms in the sector are set to transform the Indian economy. The last few years have been a seminal period for the Indian economy, not only in terms of the overall progress on the macroeconomic front, but more importantly in the structural reforms undertaken, many of which will have deep-rooted, long-term effects. Be it the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Demonetisation or Goods and Services Tax (GST), each of these reforms has targeted a [...]

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              New territories, new gateways

              2018-08-01T12:48:13+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, EMERGING MARKETS, October 2017, Year|

              The Netherlands, Singapore and Mauritius have emerged as leading destinations for outbound Indian FDI. The attractions are benign tax laws, ease of doing business, easy access to international markets and robust regulatory frameworks. The two top destinations for outward foreign direct investments (FDI) from India are Mauritius and Singapore. Three more tax havens – Jersey, Switzerland and British Virgin Islands – also figure in the list of Top 10 outward destinations. These jurisdictions are obviously bases from which the investments [...]

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