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Are we prepared for the future of work?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Education, India Council, 0Rising to the challenge of new job demands requires skilling at all levels. Besides, who can tell what the...
Five years on, mandated philanthropy not delivering in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Shared Value, Social Progress, 0Five years on, mandated philanthropy not delivering in India India is now into the fifth year of its unique experiment...
How blockchain will fundamentally change our lives in future
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The use of internet has undergone rapid evolution in a matter of few decades. In the 90s, the internet...
View: The world needs evolutionary transformation, not economic nationalism
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0View: The world needs evolutionary transformation, not economic nationalism The developing wave of economic nationalism across the world has...
India’s Competitiveness: Where do we stand? It is quite commonplace to hear that India will be an economic superpower in a...
How telecom has become driver of economic change in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Telecom, 0How telecom has become driver of economic change in India For most part of human history, change was glacial...
Late convergence stall The usual brouhaha around the Budget strips the Economic Survey of the attention it deserves. The...
Long-awaited market correction finally in full swing
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Long-awaited market correction finally in full swing History has strange ways of repeating itself. The economic situation in the...
Budget 2018: Balancing populism with economics
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Budget, India Council, 0Budget 2018: Balancing populism with economics The Budget is finally out and to put it simply, Mr. Jaitley did...
Budget 2018 expectations: After Economic Survey, much now depends on what FM Arun Jaitley has in store
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Budget 2018 expectations: After Economic Survey, much now depends on what FM Arun Jaitley has in store In its own...
Last week Uday Kotak of the Kotak Mahindra Bank had a warning for the stock markets entering a possible...
The Global Dialogues & Conversations India this year is putting together its largest ever entourage of ministers, policymakers and...
The price prescription Post-GST, we need a more targeted taxation and retail policy on tobacco products India is the...
Budget 2018 will be Modi govt’s biggest challenge in 4 years. Here’s why
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Budget, India Council, 0Budget 2018 will be Modi govt’s biggest challenge in 4 years. Here’s why Unlike most countries, budgets are usually...
India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world that has grown at a rate of above...
FSSAI not a Lone Ranger, states have to complement it
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0In the same week as a Delhi court acquitted all the accused in the 2G fiasco, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), which had a...
The new year is upon us. It has been 17 years into the 21st century and if one word...
Rocky ride for the economy in 2017 It has been almost a decade since the world underwent a litany...
Tapping Into the Evolving Telecom Sector
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Telecom, 0Tapping Into the Evolving Telecom Sector The Indian telecom industry is passing through complex times. It has been almost two decades since the Atal...
It’s best to steer clear of Bitcoins lest the bubble bursts
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0It’s best to steer clear of Bitcoins lest the bubble bursts It is impossible to make sense of the...
Bad news for Modi? Bleak prospects for Indian economy for next few quarters
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Bad news for Modi? Bleak prospects for Indian economy for next few quarters The much-awaited second quarter gross domestic...
Consumer Protection Act: A Reform In Limbo The Bill includes quite a few forward-looking, innovative measures that will go...
Tobacco consumption: Why bidi, not cigarette, is bigger challenge for India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Tobacco consumption: Why bidi, not cigarette, is bigger challenge for India It seems like a good time for India...
‘Padmavati’ protests much ado about nothing? It’s that time of the year again when our sentiments are hurt, and...
Graded measures, not knee-jerk reactions needed against air pollution
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0“Delhi is a wakeup call for the world on air pollution. It clearly tells us that unless decisive actions are...
Plotting Social Progress We need a cohesive measure of social progress in individual States The accomplishments of modern India...
Is Doing Business Really Easy? Modi’s efforts in building India’s global appeal to investors seems to have finally yielded...
World markets ripe for the taking, but where is India’s strategy?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Strategy, 0World markets ripe for the taking, but where is India’s strategy? In an expected and welcome turn of events,...
Economic growth doesn’t guarantee social progress
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Social Progress, 0Economic growth doesn’t guarantee social progress Since the recent growth figures disclosing the deceleration in the Gross Domestic Product...
India’s states should track and act on social parameters
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Social Progress, 0India’s states should track and act on social parameters Political conversations across the country in the last few weeks...
Government should wake up to scourge of illegal LEDs
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Government should wake up to scourge of illegal LEDs The Indian LED lighting industry is going through a boom...
The real reason why Modi is struggling to find a fix for India’s job crises
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The real reason why Modi is struggling to find a fix for India’s job crises The problem of jobs...
India’s economy is resilient and will bounce back, but here is the deep-rooted problem
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India’s economy is resilient and will bounce back, but here is the deep-rooted problem Since the latest growth numbers have...
India improving on competitiveness index, but large ailments remain
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India improving on competitiveness index, but large ailments remain In a respite to the Modi government, which has been...
Fiscal stimulus could do more harm than good if Modi ignores these things
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Fiscal stimulus could do more harm than good if Modi ignores these things It is almost a certainty that...
Can BRICS credit rating agency ever take off?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Can BRICS credit rating agency ever take off? The BRICS Summit was largely an uneventful affair this year. Apart...
Economic Issues Will Have a Decisive Say in 2019 General Elections
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0It is becoming really hard to be optimistic about the Indian economy. As TN Ninan pointed out last week,...
Scaling up core micronutrient interventions: It’s $12 bn vs $574 mn
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Healthcare, India Council, 0Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two people to land on the moon, was quoted saying “If we can...
India needs to holistically tackle child malnutrition
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Healthcare, India Council, 0It is no secret that India has had an appalling record in keeping her children healthy. It is no...
Remember the debilitating crisis of 2008? Something scarier is heading your way
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0It has been a decade since the biggest financial crisis in living memory swept the globe. In a run...
Self-proclaimed godmen and a coterie of sycophants to back them and validate their claims have always been ubiquitous in India. This...
Not just a boardroom battle: Here are the real reasons behind the Infosys crisis
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Infosys is yet again in the news for all the wrong reasons. The poster child of the Indian IT industry just...
India’s social advancement dependent on rise in productivity
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Indian rupee has been on a rising spree this year. Beginning from historical lows back in December-January, when...
Need of The Hour is to Keep Core of Infosys Intact
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Dr. Vishal Sikka’s exit from Infosys seems to have been accentuated by the streak of comments made by co-founder...
Shared Value an important lever in Prime Minister’s Vision of New India 2022
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Shared Value, 0On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, The Prime Minister urged the citizens to create a new...
The RBI expectedly cut the repo rate last week by 25 basis points, bringing the key lending rate to a six-year...
Why Rising Wealth Gap in India Doesn’t Mean Growth is Inequitable
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The data released by the Bloomberg Billionaire Index revealed some shocking statistics about the rise of inequality in India....
Market investors need to avoid being driven by animal spirits
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Indian stock markets seems to be on a steroid-infused dream run. Both the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty-50 and...
Indian household savings patterns have been witnessing some massive structural shifts off late. Households in India have historically been...
Climate change: Radical changes in consumption the way forward
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Last week Antarctica shed a trillion-ton iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf that had been tethered precariously at...
Self-policing can overcome perils of social media
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Since the election of Donald Trump to the White House and the subsequent allegations of Russia rigging the outcome,...
Strategic action against human trafficking long overdue
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The annual US Congress-mandated report on human trafficking last week continued to place India in the tier-2 category, which includes countries...
Understanding Business Models: Literature Review of Concepts and Trends
amitkapoor, , Articles, Research Paper, 0This article undertakes the literature review to understand the emerging trends on the conceptualisation of business model theme....
Social Progress Index: India’s quality of life improves, but scores low on communication, environment
amitkapoor, , Articles, Social Progress, 0The measurement of quality of life is critical to understand whether economic growth is fostering social development across the...
Is RBI’s hawkish stance hurting India’s growth prospects?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The role of interest rate in India’s growth is grossly underplayed. The movement of interest rates have been strongly...
US plans to roll back the 2010 Dodd Frank Act, a fatal move towards deregulation
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Twice in two weeks the US has taken steps that will have dire repercussions on a global scale. First,...
Need to guard against demographic dividend becoming demographic burden
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0It has been an eventful three years for the Modi government. Back in 2014, BJP had inherited a system...
Contrary to popular belief, skill is a rarity among Indian graduates. In the field of engineering, for instance, quantity...
To transform, India needs to improve competitiveness of its states
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Future of States, India Council, States, 0India has become the fastest-growing economy in the world. The next logical steps are to make this trend sustainable...
View: India needs to rethink strategy for the IT sector
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Indian IT industry is at a crossroads. The sector first suffered the long-expected shock of the Trump administration’s...
Focus on Q results, not long-term growth has created India’s NPA conundrum
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India’s NPA problem has a flip side to it: the issue of rising corporate debts. IMF, in its latest...
Narendra Modi’s war on black money incomplete without taxing farm income
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Taxing agricultural income has always been a politically sensitive topic. This was evident last week after NITI Aayog member...
South Asia needs to improve its subdued competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0South Asia is becoming one of the most interesting regions in the world economy, displaying unprecedented growth, averaging close to six...
Indian states need to strategise their development
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, States, 0The Modi government has been pulling all stops to improve the ease of doing business rankings since it came into power...
Capturing consumer attention in a competitive landscape
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Shared Value, 0The onset of summer and rising mercury levels will soon lead to a huge demand for ice-creams and frozen...
GST rollout, tackling NPAs to dominate new fiscal
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0An eventful financial year nears its end on March 31. It was a year of tumultuous ups and downs...
Key to reviving Punjab lies in revitalising its once industrial cities
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The conversation around BJPs electoral win in UP has completely overshadowed the political scenario in the state of Punjab. Political commentators...
Post assembly elections, time for bold reforms
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The just-concluded assembly elections and the unparalleled performance of the BJP have been the highlight of the weekend. The elections, happening...
Job creation vital for India to escape middle-income trap
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Indian economy has been witnessing a flux of good news lately. The GDP growth for the October-December quarter stood at seven per...
Innovation key to India surviving next industrial revolution
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Future of States, India Council, Manufacturing, 0It is only so often that the world finds itself at the cusp of a revolution and an industrial...
GDP is easily the most controversial measure in the field of economics. It is a measure of economic production...
Crying need for outcome-based education in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Education, India Council, 0If the buzz around Hyperloop materialises, a commute between Chennai and Bengaluru can be a matter of 30 minutes. The advent of Artificial...
Mr Jaitley, isn’t it time to get rid of personal income tax for the sake of better economy?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Finance Minister Arun Jaitley put the spotlight on the issue of tax evasion in his February 1 budget speech...
Budget 2017 – How these 5 key points would shape up India’s competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0Competitiveness at the national level relates to the set of institutions, policies, factors, resources and competencies that enhance the...
Budget aimed at fulfilling heightened expectations post-demonetisation
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Union Budget for 2017-18 was easily the most anticipated one in recent times. The public was seeking the...
Capital expenditure alone can’t support Indian growth story
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0Unlike in most countries of the world, the Budget unusually holds widespread public interest in India. However, the Budget...
Budget 2017: A four-point agenda for Arun Jaitley to boost farm productivity
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0The agriculture sector in India employs more than 90 million people and contributes 15.4 percent gross value addition (GVA)...
Housing for all: How Budget 2017 can make up for the huge implementation gap
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY – Urban) was launched by PM Narendra Modi on 25 June 2015, wherein the...
How Budget 2017 can tackle healthcare issues without affecting fiscal math much
amitkapoor, , Articles, Healthcare, India Council, 0Healthcare is hardly a debated issue in India. Election manifestos usually pay lip service to the issue and successive Budgets...
Universal basic income in Budget? Here’s why it shouldn’t be disruptive like demonetisation
amitkapoor, , Articles, Budget, India Council, 0Ever since Arvind Subramanian confirmed that the idea of universal basic income (UBI) would make its way into the...
View: Modi’s move to dismantle bureaucracy, the demonic relic of the Raj, deserves a standing ovation
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0As we get to celebrate 67 years as a republic on January 26 and 70 years as an independent...
Going digital: How it evolved over last 2 years, what the Budget should do
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0Digital India Mission was unveiled by PM Narendra Modi on 3 July 2015. Over the last two years, considerable...
Budget agenda: To tackle higher education mess, increase allocation to sector
amitkapoor, , Articles, Budget, Education, India Council, 0The anticipations regarding what the Union Budget 2017 has in store for different sectors have already started. In the...
Creativity will drive India’s prosperity: Is anyone listening?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0A special “Nobel Series” session was a notable addition at the latest Vibrant Gujarat Summit (January 9-12). Nine laureates were invited to...
India needs to guard against technological disruption in manufacturing
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Manufacturing, 0The most recent Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) reflects a contraction in the manufacturing activity in India in December. Most...
Mega trends and events to look out for in 2017
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0There has been much debate on how the world will be in 2017. Several trends are visible and some...
Practices that enhance competitiveness while improving socio-economic profiles of communities bring better growth Milton Friedman vehemently argued against the...
The year coming to a close saw the unraveling of several key events at both the international and domestic...
Indian states must collectively envision their futures
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Future of States, India Council, States, 0India is a country of epic proportions and almost the size of a continent. The whole of Europe has lesser number of inhabitants than India but...
Jayalalithaa was to Tamil Nadu what Narendra Modi was to Gujarat. Their respective states symbolise their legacy and present unique models of development that...
Opportunities, challenges of B-school models top discussions at Shared Value Summit 2016
amitkapoor, , Articles, Press Release, Shared Value, 0The Shared Value Summit 2016, organised recently, presented an interactive learning platform for discussion about the opportunities and challenges...
Opec move to cut production may adversely affect India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The decision at the just-concluded 171st ministerial meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to reduce...
View: ‘Less-cash’ society can ensure financial, digital inclusion of the masses
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0With the government decision to withdraw Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes as legal tender, an ongoing debate on...
Demonetisation: It cannot be business as usual any more
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Prime Minister’s move on demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes is now slowly playing out. Apart from...
Government must swiftly revamp currency exchange process
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The past week has been momentous with two important events: the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President and...
Pollution, productivity and prosperity in South Asian cities
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0That the environment in cities in India and the broader South Asian region in general is in shambles is not a...
Development potential of international migration needs to be tapped
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0International migration refers to the movement of people across borders caused by various economic, social and environmental factors as...
Economic growth alone is not enough to achieve key Sustainable Development Goals. It must translate into jobs for the...
Mistry’s exit a blip in Tata’s long, illustrious history
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Tata group is no stranger to Indians. It has had a long and illustrious history in the sub-continent...