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    Does India’s resources sector offer an opportunity for Australian miners?

    2019-08-23T14:13:13+00:00August 9th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – August 2019|

    Australia can play a significant role in India’s growth story, not only as a resource supplier, but also as an enabler, helping India modernise its mining sector and improve efficiency, writes an expert on India- Australia relations. The Australian government’s release of the ‘India Economic Strategy, 2035’ (IES2035) last year came as a relief to those with concerns that Australia might be falling behind in according India a higher priority. The document lays down Australia’s vision for capturing the opportunities [...]

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      It is in both US and India’s interest to work through the hard issues on trade

      2019-08-09T12:00:45+00:00August 9th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – August 2019|

      Nisha Biswal, President US-India Business Council, and Former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, US department of State, discusses the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for India and the United States. How would you characterise the current India-US dynamic in the context of a so-called global trade war? Clearly there are increasing trade tensions between the US and India, and that shouldn’t be entirely unexpected. As the trade and investment relationship between our countries deepens, more issues will [...]

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        Why Indian businesses should Invest in Australia

        2019-09-24T06:34:35+00:00August 9th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – August 2019|

        In this interview with 'India Global Business' magazine, John Madew, Senior Trade & Investment Commissioner - South Asia for Austrade, discusses the many opportunities for growth and collaboration between India and the land Down Under. What kind of trajectory of investments has Austrade noted on trade between India & Australia in recent years? If you look at the raw trade statistics between Australia and India it is about approximately a 20 billion dollar two-way trade relationship. Around 14 billion from [...]

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          UK Export Finance has always been at the forefront in promoting British exports globally

          2019-08-09T14:38:14+00:00July 26th, 2019|2019, UK Edition – July 2019|

          Rahul Tabhane is the Country Head for India at UK Export Finance. In this interview with ‘India Global Business’ he discusses UK-India trade, Brexit and bulking up the number of exports between the two countries. What are the factors behind India logging impressive UK export figures for 2018? The UK has always been a destination for cutting edge technology, innovative products, global expertise and a hub for technical and financial services. Demand for UK goods and services is ever growing [...]

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            India sees big opportunities in Africa, a counterpoint to China

            2020-03-20T06:04:01+00:00July 26th, 2019|2019, UK Edition – July 2019|

            By proposing a free trade agreement with Africa and by extending a $50-million grant to Niger to host the African Union Summit, the Modi government has signalled that it will continue to champion close collaboration and partnership with Africa. If Africa were a country, it would be the world’s seventh-largest economy. Then, more than 30 of the 54 nations in Africa are democracies. And Africa has the largest concentration of Indians or Indian origin people outside the sub-continent. In a [...]

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              Trump’s trade brinkmanship can damage strategic ties with India

              2020-03-20T09:01:50+00:00July 12th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – June 2019, Home Page|

              US President Donald Trump wants to decouple trade ties with India from Washington’s strategic relationship with New Delhi but his heavy handed approach to trade negotiations is unlikely to yield results without mutual give and take. At the recent G-20 Summit in the Japanese city of Osaka, US President Donald Trump told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi: “… We have become great friends and our countries have never been closer. I can say that with surety...” This bonhomie was missing [...]

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                Trump takes aim at India; how should India respond?

                2020-08-20T07:06:06+00:00July 12th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – June 2019|

                India needs a more strategic approach than just retaliatory measures to tackle the US President on global trade, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. In US President Donald Trump’s playbook, trade and strategic relationships with important allies seem to reside in mutually exclusive tight silos. How else can one explain the series of trade fights he has picked with countries such as Canada and Mexico, the EU, Japan and now India. This laser focus on trade to the [...]

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                  India stands to gain from a full-blown US-China trade war

                  2020-03-19T07:56:18+00:00July 7th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – June 2019, Home Page|

                  The recent back and forth of tariff hikes between the US and China are causing quite a stir in the global economy. However, in the long run, this tussle could result in several advantageous opportunities for India. When the world’s two largest economies—US and China—that between them account for roughly 40 per cent of world’s overall economic output, go for a full-blown trade war with each other, the impact is felt in every nook and corner of this planet. At [...]

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                    Africa needs targeted policies to bolster global trade

                    2020-03-24T07:38:48+00:00June 24th, 2019|2019, Special Edition – June 2019|

                    An International trade expert analyses the trade patterns between India and Africa over the years and charts the roadmap to booth bilateral investment. A snapshot of Africa-India relations Africa’s engagement with India dates back to pre-colonial times during the 10th century when enterprising Indian merchants began looking for markets to trade their commodities. Their initial contacts were with Egypt and African lands along the Red Sea. Both Africans and Indians who had initial contact became part of the Indian Ocean [...]

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                      The sustainable energy sector holds opportunities for collaboration

                      2019-09-03T10:41:00+00:00June 7th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – June 2019|

                      The founder of Africa GreenCo how shared expertise between Africa, India and the UK can lead to noteworthy developments in emerging markets. Over the last 10 years, sub-Saharan African trade and economic diplomacy have slowly trended away from developed countries and toward emerging economies. Since 2006, the region’s exports to the United States has declined by 66 per cent, whilst exports to India have more than doubled. Exports to the UK are not yet as significant but could become so [...]

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