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Are Indian Cities Ready for the Coming Migration Wave?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Cities, India Council, 0According to the World Urbanization Prospects of the UN Population Division, the percentage of people residing in urban areas...
A recent study by CSE (Centre for Science and Environment) points to the presence of possible cancer-causing chemicals in...
Software Industry and its Intellectual Property
amitkapoor, , Articles, Future of States, India Council, 0Google in its doodle on April 30, 2016 payed homage to Claude Shannon, the pioneer of the modern Information Age. Without...
Common sales wisdom dictates thoughts such as “does your product solve a problem” or “do you add value to...
Election Commission must move towards simultaneous polls
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0This is the 100th article of the series and calls for a special issue to be discussed that has...
India’s Development Strategy towards Social Progress and UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0There exists a considerable overlap between the recently adopted United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targeted to be...
In the early 1930s a need was felt to capture all economic transactions by individuals, companies, and the government...
India’s IP policy: A positive first step for economic development
amitkapoor, , Articles, Future of States, India Council, 0India’s first and recently initiated national IPR policy is a culmination of the ongoing process of improving India’s IP...
Two recent interventions brought to the fore the issues about pricing in an economy. The first of these pertains...
Two years of the Modi government: Pluses and minuses
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Narendra Modi government has been in office for almost two years. There have been some strong areas of performance and...
Impact of recent regulatory move on Make in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Manufacturing, 0Manufacturing in India has not been particularly strong. This is because of a host of reasons emanating from the India’s socialist...
India is sometimes accused of being a kritarchy- a rule of the state by Judges. It is because the Judiciary in...
India should strengthen IP regime to improve competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Future of States, India Council, 0India’s intellectual property (IP) regime has witnessed steady progress ever since the country became a signatory to the TRIPS...
The past few weeks seem to reflect the reality of the Indian media and its relationship (if indeed there...
States must be brought on board for visionary e-NAM initiative
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Future of States, India Council, 0Agriculture is a critical sector of the Indian economy. This is because, in spite of its relatively low and...
The BRICS club (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which used to be known for its tremendous growth...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Asked...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on April 5, released its first bi-monthly monetary policy statement and with it, the monetary policy...
South Asian integration: More actionable steps needed
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0One of the positives of the present dispensation in Delhi is described as its pursuit of an active foreign policy. Some...
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Creating Shared Value Through Better Dairying
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, Shared Value, 0An insightful piece by author focusing on presenting a compelling argument for healthcare companies to pursue the idea of...
Cities, creativity and innovation are interlinked, here’s how
amitkapoor, , Articles, Cities, Future of States, India Council, 0Cities and creativity are crucial areas for study in isolation, but when combined they yield some fascinating insights. It...
Mauritius is a small island country (land area – roughly 2,000 square km) located in the Indian Ocean. The...
India lags in social progress and tolerance
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Social Progress, 0For decades, Gross Domestic Product has been used to evaluate the economic performance of a nation. It measures the...
Role of business education in India in creating managers and entrepreneurs
amitkapoor, , Articles, Education, India Council, 0The business education landscape in India needs some soul searching. It is because post liberalisation the market economy has had a...
Can India transform economic challenges into opportunities?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Indian economy, with its evolution and transformation over the past 25 years, has been a topic of discussion...
Here are the options for bettering higher education in India
amitkapoor, , Articles, Education, India Council, 0Higher education in a developing country context is critical. It is because education is the bedrock on which a stable...
Today the world stands at the cusp of water crisis and is struggling to manage its repercussions. The strong...
Budget 2016 may or may not meet expectations of the common man
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0Commoners’ understanding and expectations are often very different from a purely economic and strategic understanding of the budget. For...
Process and likely focus areas of the Budget 2016
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Budget, India Council, 0The budget is an important document that decides the course of the fiscal policy of the government over the...
Rise in ‘unemployable educated’ class shows why primary education needs revamp
amitkapoor, , Articles, Education, India Council, 0The state of education in India is precarious. This is even more so for basic education than for the...
Building smart and clean cities requires smarter governance
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The union Government has seen two important announcements in the recent past. Under the flagship Smart City Mission, it...
Article published in the India Food Report 2016. India is the largest producer of milk in the world. The total...
Is perception a good measurement of corruption?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Evidence of corruption in a developing countries like India can cause massive turmoil. Two cases in point have been the near...
Here’s how Bank of Japan’s recent monetary policy decision will work out
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0The recent decision of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is seen by many as a surprising move. The Asian...
Startups form the basis of a more productive and prosperous nation. The growth of several countries in the past...
The World Economic Forum on January 18, 2016, released a report titled ‘Future of Jobs’, which comes under the...
Resolving structural issues for creating a startup nation
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The recent congregation of investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs under the broad theme of Startup India Standup India is a good beginning....
Startup ecosystem in India is coming of age. This is due to the access to finance and especially the...
Positively Leadership Dean of the IE School of Human Sciences and Technology, Lee Newman suggests a new approach to...
A typical view on what to expect in 2016 would quite likely be around the idea of looming fears...
A recent publication by the World Bank group on the global economy titled ‘Global Economic Prospects 2016: Spillover Amid...
The report of the Committee on Revising and Revitalizing Public Private Partnership Model of Infrastructure chaired by Dr. Vijay...
RBI’s concerns on banking and economic stability
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The RBI recently released two reports on the condition of banking and allied sectors in the India. The first...
The recently released mid-year review of the Indian economy by the finance ministry offers some fascinating insights into Indian public policy and decision-making....
More than a month has passed since the cabinet gave its approval to the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana or...
Resolving India’s urban governance challenges
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The recent flooding in Chennai and our reaction to it points to a deeper malaise affecting us all. It...
MSME sector is one of the most neglected sectors with respect to public policy but has immense potential. It...
COP-21 must find practical, pragmatic, sustainable solutions
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0A staggering 147 heads of state have assembled at Paris to discuss and possibly find a solution to the...
On November 30, 2015, leaders of 147 countries will sit together in Paris to discuss the future course of...
Shared Value Summit Brings to Fore the Importance of Shared Value in India
amitkapoor, , Articles, Press Release, Shared Value, 0Mark R. Kramer delivered the opening keynote enlightening the audience with the shared value concept Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati...
India’s East Asian push will be mutually beneficial
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India has seen a strong standalone performance in its growth in the recent past as compared to the other BRICS...
Parliamentary disruption and India’s competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India has a parliamentary form of democracy, the governance system consisting of the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. The...
Way forward is to get things done without legislation
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The recent change to the FDI policy regime by the Indian government is a welcome move. In spite of the huge...
Greater equanimity required in understanding tolerance
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0A raging debate has risen in India about tolerance or, as some would argue, the reduction of it in the country....
What should the world do to make sustainable development goals truly ‘sustainable’?
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which draw near to completion in 2015, have given way to the new Sustainable...
There has been a marked shift in the way people view businesses after the 2008 global financial crisis. Businesses...
This year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences was announced on 12 October 2015, the recipient none other than...
If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family...
Healthcare, education and law & order are thought to be the main concerns of nation-states across the world. The...
RBI’s monetary policy decision and its impact
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Last week Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan cut the repo rate by 50 basis points to 6.75 percent. This...
Here’s where India ranks in World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report!
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0The World Economic Forum (WEF) earlier this week released its annual Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) 2015-16. According to the...
Earlier this week the Fraser Institute based in Toronto along with the Economic Freedom Network released the ‘Economic Freedom...
State competitiveness as a tool for economic development
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Future of States, India Council, 0One of the major paradigm shifts one sees of late in India’s political economy is a focus on states....
Want economic growth? Here’s why we should pay attention to our healthcare system!
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0Ageing societies pose several challenges like slow economic growth, providing healthcare facilities for the elderly, and taking care of...
India’s power sector is heavily dependent on coal for power generation. It is because roughly 61% of the country’s installed...
Recent events in the Chinese economy and its impact on the world markets merit attention. With August 24 being...
Indian exports have fallen for the eighth consecutive month – 10.3 percent from the July 2014 level of $25.793...
Caste and religion: The identities that need to be relooked for development
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0Two recent events have a lot to offer in terms of understanding India’s slow and clamorous development process. The...
Payments Banks – A game-changing idea for Financial Inclusion
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, 0The financial system in India has witnessed marked changes since the time of liberalization. Banking has been one of...
Achievements and future challenges of independent India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0As India celebrates and enters its 69th year of independence, it is important to look at some of the country’s achievements...
Corruption has been at the forefront of political debate in the country for quite some time now. In the past, the previous Union...
In the world economy, the importance of the service sector cannot be overstated. The share of services in the world...
The manufacturing sector has been an Achilles’ heel of the Indian economy in the recent past. Manufacturing sector’s share...
Infrastructure development is critical for economic development. It has a domino effect on the other sectors of the economy...
India is at a very interesting stage in its history. It is emerging as a major global economy, a significant...
A globally competitive economy often rests on a robust and competitive banking system. The Indian banking system comprises of...
The recent third bi-monthly monetary policy review of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was in line with what...
Competitiveness is a recent construct in the history of economic thought that has gained prominence over the past 25...
A vision is not a project report or a plan target. It is an articulation of the desired end results...
Balance could build consensus on monetary policy
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The recently released revised draft of the ‘Indian Financial Code’ has attracted a lot of media attention and rightly...
India should leverage economic geography for development
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India has one of the longest coastlines in the world at approximately 7,500 km. A longer coastline is responsible...
India has a very high proportion of the workforce that are employed in the informal sector. It poses several...
Till date, India’s policymakers have been slow to realize that the vast number of people it possesses can be...
Skilling is one of the major challenges facing India today. India has at present roughly 65 percent of the...
BRICS, development and the emerging world order
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is attributed to economist Jim O’Neill of the Goldman...
Urban planning and its execution at present in India can at best be described as being rudimentary. The rains...
No easy choice for European leaders for Greece
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Greek referendum that was announced on June 26 by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has taken Europe by storm. The ‘No’ side has...
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get...
Cities are the building blocks of any country. They are the cradles of creativity and innovation and drive regional...
Has India become globally competitive since Modi government?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India’s position, since the Narendra Modi government completed one year in office, has been a matter of wide-ranging discussion...
Development plans for constructing India’s first Greenfield smart city were however drafted way back in 2007. Gujarat International Finance...
The healthcare challenge in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Healthcare, India Council, 0India, since Independence, has achieved modest success when it comes to some aspects of public health, but much remains...
Power is critical for economic development and human progress. It has a bearing on not only economic growth but...
Railways’ reforms can transformatively impact 1.2 bn Indians
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The railways sector has seen some activity in the past few months. Not only are operational changes being brought...
The recently released rankings of the Times Higher Education for Asia paint a grim picture of Indian Higher Education....
Leveraging human capital is a fascinating topic for developing societies. It is because social and economic progress is critically...
Will the Indian tiger catch the Chinese dragon?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0For all the hype that was recently created in the mainstream media over the Indian economy “overtaking” the Chinese economy in...
Creating Shared Value: The Next Evolutionary Form of capitalism
amitkapoor, , Articles, India Council, Shared Value, 0What is the role of corporations in society? The question has had distinct kinds of responses from varied thinkers....
Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Narendra Modi government completed one year in office on Monday (May 25). One of the centerpieces of why the BJP-led NDA dispensation...